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Clay vessel

Tripod bowl with an attached, conical neck and flattened lip. On the outside of the vessel wall there are raised incised decorations filled with white paint. All legs have rattle beads. Two legs have a conical shape. The third leg depicts a female, anthropo-zoomorphic creature. It has four opposing, round openings and several applied decorations. The object has been smoothed, slurried and primed on both sides. The painting is heavily eroded. The pottery has a red-brown base colour. On the outside of the neck of the vessel there is a surrounding frieze consisting of opposing, hatched triangles. The object has a figuratively designed leg. The female figure wears a zoomorphic mask, a headdress and jewellery. Her body is covered by several round supports, possibly symbolising scales. According to Lehmann 1913: El Viejo style. Cultural significance: the type is known both from burials and from household contexts. Its ceramics show design influences from the Central Highlands and the Atlantic Slope of Costa Rica. (Künne 2004)

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Cataloguing data

Object type
crock
Dimensions
Diameter: 8 cm
Weight: 500 g
Wandstärke: 0,75 cm
Height: 12,2 cm
Depth: 15,5 cm
Width: 13 cm
Material/Technique
Sound
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 41640

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    Bicromo en zonas (500 BC - 500 AD)
    where
    Costa Rica
    Guanacaste
    Santa Cruz
    San Juan
  • Change of legal title:
    Acquisition
    Description
    Purchase from 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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