Bowl

31956

From: Peru | Northwest of the Town | Pachacamac

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 31956
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Northwest of the Town | Pachacamac
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Description

Red clay bowl (or pot) with snake and boss ornamentation; two vertical loop handles on shoulder

Cooking pot (olla) with a globular body, no neck/collar, flattened rim, 2 strap handles on the body, and a rounded base. The vessel has a red slip (?) with white painted lines around the handles and rim. There are two raised snakes on the body an raised bumps pushed out from the interior. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior and a scraped finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The catalogue number is written on the object in black ink on the bottom of the base. Black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "3314."

Height 10.4 cm
Width 19.2 cm
Thickness 0.7 cm
Outside Diameter 16.9 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 3314 - Field No SF

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