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Clay bowl

Three-legged, round-bottomed vessel with a low rim. The object has a high, concave wall decorated with wide incisions and engravings. The hollow legs have vertical, narrow openings and rattle beads. Each leg was decorated with a zoomorphic (?) head protome. The object has been smoothed, slurried and primed on both sides. There are several fractures on the rim. The monochrome pottery has a red base colour, which was applied to orange-coloured clay. There are three rectangular pictorial fields on the outside of the vessel wall, which are decorated with incised lines and dots. According to Lothrop 1926: maroon incised ware. (Künne 2004)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Clay bowl
Dimensions
Diameter: 13,1 cm
Wandstärke: 0,55 cm
Depth: 9 cm
Diameter: 13,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 44741

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    500 - 1550
    where
    Costa Rica
    Cartago
    La Lima
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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