Pot

27480

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 27480
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Culture Area Andean
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay
Description

Wide mouth, double collar to flaring rim. Plain.

Cooking pot (olla) with a carinated body, compound collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a rounded base. The collar has a double ring and flares at top. No decoration. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in a reducing atmosphere as the surface is black and the interior is gray in color. The catalogue number is written on the interior of neck. No other numbers are visible on the object.

Height 18.7 cm
Thickness 0.61 cm
Outside Diameter 21.3 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 1627M - Field No SF

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