| Object Number |
40-16-230 |
| Current Location |
Collections Storage |
| Culture |
Cocle |
| Provenience |
Panama | Sitio Conte |
| Site Name |
Sitio Conte |
| Culture Area |
Central American |
| Locus |
Burial 11 |
| Date Made |
450 - 900 CE |
| Section |
American |
| Materials |
Ceramic |
| Description |
Ring base, polychrome carafe. Neck decorated with sepia scroll design on white. Red band circling rim. Body painted with red triangles and purple chevrons on white. Red band circling ring base. Intact but paint eroded. |
| Height |
15 cm |
| Outside Diameter |
12 cm |
| Credit Line |
Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940 |
| Other Number |
B11 - 182 - Field No SF |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Hearne Jardine, Pamela H., and Robert J. Sharer. River of Gold: Precolumbian Treasures from Sitio Conte. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 1992. |
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| Mason, John A. "Ivory and Resin Figurines from Cocle." The University Museum Bulletin 8, no. 4. ( Oct 1940): 13-21. |
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| Mason, John A. New Excavations at the Sitio Conte, Cocle, Panama. 2. Proceedings of the Eigth American Scientific Congress, Washington, DC, May 10-18, 1940, 1942. Page/Fig./Plate: 103-107. Washington, DC: Department of State |
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| "A Gold and Emerald Crocodile from Panama," Archaeology. 2. 1949. :8485 |
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