Photographer: Andrea Blumtritt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
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Three-footed bowl with retractable rim. The object has two opposing handles. It was decorated with two rimmed, avimorph head protomes. The pottery is smoothed and slipped on both sides. Its exterior was primed, painted and lightly polished. One protome is completely fragmented. The pottery has a red base colour, which was painted black and white on the outside of the vessel. On the wall there is an upright, circumferential black band. It is decorated with white dots and bordered by thin white lines. Two inverted T motifs appear below the protomes. The inside of the object remains undecorated. After Lothrop 1926: Nicoya black line ware, alligator motifs. According to Lehmann 1913: El Viejo style. Cultural significance: the Tola Tricromo group is considered a diagnostic indicator of the Policromo Antiguo (500-800d.C.). The Costa Rican variant López has been documented above all in the Bahía de Culebra and in the valley of the Río Tempisque. It seems to have emerged from the Rosales Esgrafiado en zonas group (500d.C.-500a.C.). The Nicaraguan variant Tola has many similarities with the Chávez Blanco sobre Rojo group (800-500d.C.). (Künne 2004)
