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Clay vessel

Small, three-legged jug in the shape of an anthropomorphic head. The bulbous object has a short neck and short, massive legs. The body is decorated with applied sculptural decoration and painted red. The pottery has been smoothed and slipped on both sides. Its rim is fragmented. The body is decorated with a sculptural, anthropomorphic face painted with vertical red stripes. The inside of the object remains undecorated except for the red-painted rim. After Lothrop 1926: red line ware. (Künne 2004)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
crock
Dimensions
Diameter: 6 cm
Diameter: 3 cm
Diameter: 5,5 cm
Depth: 5,25 cm
Wandstärke: 0,45 cm
Diameter: 2,2 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 41555

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    100 B.C. - 500 A.D.
    where
    Costa Rica
    Cartago
    El Bosque
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

Information about the record

Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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