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Small, deep bowl with a hollow base and slightly concave wall. The object has been smoothed, slurried, primed, painted and polished on both sides. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The vessel has a small crack. The ceramic has an orange-brown base colour, which is painted black, black-brown and red. A red band runs along the rim on both sides. There is a circumferential frieze on the outside of the vessel wall, which shows intertwined lines. Their loops form triangles and rhombuses decorated with dots. The motifs appear to imitate textile or wickerwork. The lower parts of the body are decorated with a surrounding red band. The base is painted red. Three black bands run along the inside of the bowl wall. The uppermost band has a dot-dash decoration. According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya polychrome ware. Cultural significance: the pottery of the Mora group was produced in the north-west of Costa Rica and traded to the Central Highlands and the Atlantic region of the country. It uses representational elements (seated anthropomorphic figures with headdresses, mat motif, Kan cross), which are also known from the Maya ceramics (Copador group) of the Clásico Tardío (900-600d.C.). The variant has been documented both in burials and in settlement contexts. Lange (1971) links the Mora pottery with the Bramadero Policromo type (1520-1200d.C.), which occurs in the Policromo Tardío (1520-1350d.C.). The shape of the vessel and the decoration on the inside correspond to the Mora variant. The decoration of the outer wall, on the other hand, characterises the Guabal variant (1200-800d.C.). (Künne 2004)
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Clay shard of a vessel
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Clay shard
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Vessel base made of clay
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Inner sherd of a clay vessel
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Clay vessel
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Clay vessel
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Clay vessel
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Clay vessel
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Rim sherd of a clay vessel
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