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Clay vessel

Small, bulbous jug with a domed base and a short, straight neck. Both sides of the object have been smoothened and sanded. Its exterior is primed and painted. The primer and paint are partially eroded and one half of the neck is fragmented. The pottery has a brown base colour, which was painted black-brown on the outside of the vessel. A frieze bordered by horizontal bands runs along the shoulder. It shows diagonal bundles of lines that imitate textile or wickerwork. There is a circumferential band on both sides of the rim of the vessel. The inside of the neck was primed in brown. According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya black line ware. Cultural significance: the type was documented in burials. Its mould inventory comprises only jugs. (Künne 2004)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cataloguing data

Object type
crock
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 17,4 x 19,4 x 19,5 cm
Wandstärke: 0,7 cm
Öffnung: 5,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 45590

Provenance and sources

when
Policromo Medio (800 - 1350)
where
Costa Rica
Guanacaste [Provinz]
Santa Cruz [Kanton]
Santa Bárbara [Ort]

who
Lehmann, Walter - Former Possessors

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