Bottle
27121
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27121 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | younger western part of the principal excavations in gravefield 1. |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Technique | Painted |
| Iconography | Face |
| Description | Flattened base, cylindrical neck; painted with a face on neck. Large. Face-neck vessel. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an ovate body, flaring neck, missing rim, no handles, and a flat base. The vessel has a modeled face on the neck with ears, eyes, nose, and mouth. The body is painted with vertical bands of red and white, decorated with straight and wavy black lines. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange and buff in color. Evidence of usewear includes black staining on the interior. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1128b. |
| Height | 26.6 cm |
| Thickness | 0.49 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 21.2 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1128B - Field No SF |
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