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Clay vessel

Small, cylindrical vessel with overhanging rim and domed base. The object has several sculptural applications. Its three massive legs were decorated with a zoomorphic head protome, with dots and notches. The ceramic has been smoothed, slurried, primed and painted on both sides. The primer and paint are partially eroded. There is a restored break at the base of one leg. The object has a red-orange base colour, which is painted white. The outside of the vessel wall and the inner rim are decorated with vertical line bundles. At the base of the rim is a circumferential, applied band that decorates the outside of the object. The conical legs were designed as zoomorphic creatures. After Lothrop 1926: white line ware. (Künne 2004)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
crock
Dimensions
Wandstärke: 0,55 cm
Diameter: 5,2 cm
Diameter: 3,3 cm
Depth: 10,5 cm
Diameter: 6 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 41482

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    400 - 1000 (?)
    where
    Costa Rica
    Cartago
    Navarrito
  • Assignment to a curated holding:
    American Archaeology

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