Photographer: Andrea Blumtritt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Rim sherd from a very large vessel. The object had a concave wall with a flaring rim. The fragment was smoothed on both sides, slurried, primed and painted. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The object has a red primer, which is painted black on the inside of the ceramic. The decoration consists of vertical bundles of lines, which were probably connected with a deep, circumferential line. Although the outside of the vessel wall is not primed, it also shows a vertical, black line decoration. The upper sections of the surrounding ornamental band were painted twice. The base of the object was probably also primed. After Lothrop 1926: Nicoya black line ware, hanging line motif. According to Lehmann 1913: El Viejo style. Cultural significance: Utility pottery. The group occurs almost exclusively in settlement contexts. The type has so far only been documented south of the Bahía de Culebra and west of the Río Tempisque. Its objects are related to the El Bosque complex (El Bosque Rojo sobre Agamuzado) of the Atlantic lowlands. The object belongs to a group of decontextualised objects that Lehmann found in a burial ground near El Viejo in March 1908. There are said to be 480 objects from Huaca A alone. In addition to ceramics, they also include axes, rubbing stones, shells and "greenstones". The latter were associated with inhumations. (Künne 2004)
