Vessel
31042
From: Peru | Sun Temple | Pachacamac
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 31042 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Inca |
| Provenience | Peru | Sun Temple | Pachacamac |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Date Made | 1350-1500 |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic | Clay |
| Description | Bowl Shaped with Foot One footed Cooking pot (olla) with a squat-globular body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, 1 horizontal strap handle on the body, and a footed base. There are no molded/modeled additions and 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 an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. Evidence of usewear includes soot on the exterior. The catalogue number is written on the bottom of the base and black ink on the bottom of the base reads: "2335." |
| Height | 23.6 cm |
| Width | 21 cm |
| Thickness | 0.7 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17.5 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 2335 - Field No SF |
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