Pot
27463
From: Peru | Pachacamac | Pachacamac Temple | Beneath The Temple
Curatorial Section: American
| Object Number | 27463 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Peru | Pachacamac | Pachacamac Temple | Beneath The Temple |
| Culture Area | Andean |
| Locus | From a mummy. |
| Section | American |
| Materials | Ceramic |
| Description | Plain. Contained cotton. Cooking pot (olla) with a squat-globular body, no neck/collar, rounded rim, 2 horizontal strap handles on the body, and a rounded base. There are no molded/modeled additions and no decoration. There appears to be a smoothed finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing and reducing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange and black in color. Evidence of usewear includes soot on the exterior. The catalogue number is written on the interior of collar. Black ink on the interior of collar reads: "1098c." |
| Height | 15.2 cm |
| Width | 18.8 cm |
| Thickness | 0.63 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 17.1 cm |
| Credit Line | William Pepper Peruvian Expedition; Max Uhle, subscription of Phebe A. Hearst, 1897 |
| Other Number | 1078c - Field No SF |
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