Pitcher
27334
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27334 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Gravefield I |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Black. Flattened body. flaring neck. With twisted handle. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an ovate body, flaring neck, missing rim, 1 twisted handle extending from the neck to the body, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel has a twisted handle. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior. The vessel was likely fired in a reducing atmosphere as the surface is black and the interior is gray in color. Fireclouding is present on the body. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "1662." |
| Height | 27.4 cm |
| Width | 20.2 cm |
| Depth | 14 cm |
| Thickness | 0.57 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1662 - Field No SF |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.