Photographer: Andrea Blumtritt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalBellied jug with a domed base and a short, straight neck. The object has been smoothed and polished on both sides. Its exterior is primed, painted and polished. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The restored object has cracks and fractures. There are small flakes on the rim. The ceramic has a brown base colour, which is painted black-brown on the outside of the vessel. There is a black-brown band around the rim. A frieze bordered by horizontal black-brown lines runs along the shoulder. It shows diagonal bundles of lines that imitate textile or wickerwork. There are also several black and brown bands running around the body. The inside of the neck was painted black-brown. The body remained undecorated. According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya black line ware. Cultural significance: the type was documented in burials. Its mould inventory comprises only jugs. (Künne 2004)
Cataloguing data
Diameter: 8,8 cm
Diameter: 6 cm
Height: 15,5 cm
Depth: 18,1 cm
Width: 18,2 cm
Provenance and sources
Production
Collecting
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology
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