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Clay vessel

Three-legged, tall vessel with a hemispherical body. The object has a long, straight neck with a projecting rim. The length of the conical legs exceeds half the height of the object. Each leg has a narrow, vertical opening, rattle beads and an avimorph head protome. The ceramic was smoothed and slurried on both sides. The outside is primed and lightly polished. The primer is partially eroded. The object is leaning (due to an improperly restored foot?). The outside of the ceramic has been primed in dark brown. Its rim is painted red. The shoulder is decorated with a circumferential band with dotted decoration. According to Lothrop 1926: tripod ware, Nicoya group. Cultural significance: this type is mainly known from burials in the southern sector of the Gran Nicoya region. Its ceramics are related to the El Bosque complex of the Costa Rican Atlantic coast. (Künne 2004)

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Ethnologisches Museum
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Object type
crock
Dimensions
Mündung: 8 cm
Objektmaß: 35,8 x 20,2 x 20,7 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 41247

Provenance and sources

when
Bicromo en zonas (500 BC - 500 AD)
where
Costa Rica
Guanacaste [Provinz]
Filadelfia [Kanton]
El Viejo [Ort]

who
Lehmann, Walter - Former Possessors

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