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Clay vessel

Three-part vessel with a ring-shaped body and a small jug on top. Both parts of the object were decorated with geometric incisions. The jug has a projecting, undecorated rim and a medium-sized protome. The outside of the ceramic is smoothed, slurried, primed, incised and polished. The monochrome ceramic has an orange-red base colour. On the ring-shaped, hollow object component there are four vertical line fields connected by hatched triangles. The jug is decorated with a central, sculptural appliqué depicting a beak. Curvilinear lines run along its wall, probably symbolising the eyes of an avimorphic creature. The inside of the object remains undecorated, apart from the mottled neck. According to Lothrop 1926: orange brown ware. According to Lehmann 1913: El Viejo style. Cultural significance: the type is known both from burials and from household contexts. Its ceramics show design influences from the Central Highlands and the Atlantic Slope of Costa Rica. (Künne 2004)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
crock
Dimensions
Öffnung: 3,9 cm
Durchmesser: (Schlauch) 7,6 cm
Durchmesser: (Aufsatz) 8,5 cm
Durchmesser: (Objekt) 25,5 cm
Höhe: 14,5 cm
Wandstärke: 0,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 41396

Provenance and sources

when
Bicromo en zonas (500 BC - 500 AD)
where
Costa Rica
Guanacaste [Provinz]
Filadelfia [Kanton]
El Viejo [Ort]

who
Lehmann, Walter - Collectors

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