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Clay vessel

Three-legged, round-bottomed vessel with a low rim, recessed wall and overhanging rim. The object has incised decorations on the wall, which were made after firing. The conical legs have several round openings and rattle beads. The ceramic was smoothed, slurried and primed on both sides. The outside is lightly polished. There are small cracks on the rim. The monochrome object has a red-orange base colour. There are three rectangular pictorial fields on the outside of the vessel wall, which show hatched triangles. The decorations probably imitate the structures of textile or wickerwork. The interior of the object remains undecorated. 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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Cataloguing data

Object type
crock
Dimensions
Weight: 800 g
Diameter: 8,3 cm
Wandstärke: 0,8 cm
Height: 14,6 cm
Depth: 17 cm
Width: 17,4 cm
Diameter: 11,4 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 41438

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Bicromo en zonas (500 BC - 500 AD)
    where
    Costa Rica
    Guanacaste
    Filadelfia
    El Viejo
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Walter Lehmann 1909
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED
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