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Clay vessel

Small, bulbous jug with three conical feet. The object has a short, straight neck with a beaded rim. It has two vertical round handles on which there are two zoomorphic protomes. The base of the neck is decorated with a continuous stitch pattern. The object has been smoothed, slurried, primed and polished on both sides. Its base colour is partially eroded. The monochrome object has a red-orange ground colour. On each handle there is a zoomorphic creature looking over the rim into the interior of the vessel. Two circumferential, dotted lines appear at the base of the neck. The inside of the neck of the vessel is coloured red-orange. According to Lothrop 1926: orange-brown ware. (Künne 2004)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
crock
Dimensions
Diameter: 7,3 cm
Weight: 0,5 kg
Height: 10,8 cm
Depth: 12,7 cm
Width: 14 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 44508

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    red-orange ware (500 BC - 500 AD)
    where
    Costa Rica
    Nicoya
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from Dr 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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