The name of this item is missing in its original language. If you know the name or have any comments, please use the form to get in touch with the institution that provided the data.
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)

This content was machine-translated
Data Provider
Ethnologisches Museum
Show only fields containing data

Cataloguing data

Object type
Clay bowl
Dimensions
Diameter: 13,1 cm
: 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

when
500 - 1550
where
Costa Rica
Cartago [Stadt]
La Lima [Ort]
who
Lehmann, Walter - Collectors

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
This content was machine-translated
2.2 / 7.2