Object Number | 31780 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac |
Culture Area | Andean |
Section | American |
Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
Description | Flat base, compressed body with four knobs, neck modified by head wearing headdress with black flat, black, two double headed serpents twined around nodes Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an effigy-anthropomorphic body, effigy-anthropomorphic neck, inward sloping rim, no handles, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. There is an effigy figure with nodes (arms?) on side and a two headed serpent wrapped over its shoulders. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in a reducing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is black and gray in color. The catalogue number is written in black ink. No other numbers are visible on the object. |
Height | 24 cm |
Length | 20.5 cm |
Width | 14.5 cm |
Thickness | 0.7 cm |
Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
Other Number | 2904 - Field No SF |
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