Photographer: Andrea Blumtritt | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalSmall, spherical jug with a short, slightly protruding neck. The object has been smoothed and polished on both sides. Its exterior is primed, painted and lightly polished. The primer and paint are partially eroded. There is a flake on the rim. The pottery has a white-brownish base colour, which is painted red and black-brown on the outside of the vessel. The body is decorated with a medium-sized, all-round frieze featuring geometric motifs. They show rhombuses and trapezoids with a dot in the centre. The motifs appear to imitate textile or wickerwork. The frieze is bordered by black and brown lines. A circumferential red band appears at the base. The neck of the vessel was primed red on both sides. The inside of the body was left unpainted. According to Lothrop 1926: highland 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 design elements (seated anthropomorphic figures with headdresses, mat motif, Kan cross) that are also known from the Maya pottery (Copador group) of the Clásico Tardío (900-600d.C.). The variant mainly comprises figurative vessel flutes and pipes. (Künne 2004)
Cataloguing data
Height: 5,6 cm
Depth: 6,3 cm
Width: 6,3 cm
Diameter: 4 cm
Wandstärke: 0,55 cm
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American Archaeology
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