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Clay bowl

Round-bottomed bowl with three high, hollow legs that have no rattle moulds. Each leg is decorated with an upright, sculptural application. The vessel has been smoothed on both sides, slurried, primed, painted and lightly polished. The paint and primer are partially eroded. There are fractures on the rim. The ceramic has a red-orange base colour, which is painted black. There is a red band around the rim. The outside of the vessel wall is decorated with a frieze. It repeats a facial motif (?) that lies between two surrounding black lines. Two vertical, encircling black lines appear on the inside of the vessel wall. According to Lothrop 1926: highland, black line ware. Cultural significance: only a few polychrome ceramics appear in the ceramic system of the Central Highlands of Costa Rica. Their position is largely replaced by groups with monochrome or bicolour decoration (Künne 2004).

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Clay bowl
Dimensions
Wandstärke: 0,55 cm
Diameter: 15,5 cm
Depth: 11,1 cm
Diameter: 16,6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 45089

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    1000 - 1550
    where
    Costa Rica
    Cartago
    San Isidro de Arenilla
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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Legal status metadata
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