Cup

26710

From: Peru | Pachacamac | Pachacamac Temple

Curatorial Section: American

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Object Number 26710
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Epigonal
Provenience Peru | Pachacamac | Pachacamac Temple
Culture Area Andean
Locus tomb
Date Made 600-1000
Section American
Materials Ceramic | Clay | Pigment
Technique Polychrome
Iconography Quadruped
Description

Polychrome pottery; red , black, white, blue, and yellow. Slightly flaring. painted with a quadruped

Cup or 'qero' with a cylindrical body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, no handles, and a flat base. No molded/modeled additions. The vessel is painted with a detailed design repeated twice around the body. The painted design includes a double headed (?) animal and a face at the center painted in white, black, red, orange, and green?. There appears to be a burnished finish on the exterior and a burnished finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "3200."

Height 9.3 cm
Thickness 0.53 cm
Outside Diameter 9.1 cm
Credit Line William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897
Other Number 3200 - Field No SF

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