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Clay bowl

Small, round-bottomed bowl with a stepped, slightly overhanging rim. The object has been smoothed, slurried and primed on both sides. Its exterior is painted and highly polished. The primer and paint are barely eroded. The restored vessel has fractures and flaws. The ceramic has a salmon-coloured undercoat, which was painted red and black. The outer rim is decorated with a circumferential frieze consisting of diagonal black stripes. There is another surrounding frieze on the wall. It is composed of several horizontal, oval pictorial fields in which a highly stylised lizard creature appears. The various sectors are separated from each other by wide black stripes with circular indentations. There are several circumferential lines at the base. The inside was primed in salmon colour. According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya polychrome ware, alligator motif, type A. Cultural significance: the Carrillo and Galo Policromo groups (800-500d.C.) represent the first truly polychrome ceramics produced in the Gran Nicoya region. Their design (shape, colouring, individual motifs) is strongly reminiscent of the Ulua Policromo group (950-550d.C.). (Künne 2004)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Clay bowl
Dimensions
Wandstärke: 0,55 cm
Diameter: 9 cm
Height: 6,5 cm
Depth: 10 cm
Width: 10 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 41084

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Policromo Antiguo (500 - 800)
    where
    Costa Rica
    Nicoya
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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