goblet
- Museum number
- Am1941,04.24
- Description
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Register 1941:
Pottery waisted goblet. Design zone occupying upper surface. It displays a feline deity with diadem and horizontal mask. The 'tongue' is projecting as a spear. Its body elongates horizontally as a squared head with spears attached to its chin. Painted polychrome slip.
- Production date
- 100BC-600
- Dimensions
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Height: 5.10 inches
- Curator's comments
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Register addition "Nasca". For a typology of vessel shapes, see Alfred Kroeber and Donald Collier (edited by Patrick H. Carmichael; with an afterword by Katharina J. Schreiber), ‘The Archaeology and Pottery of Nazca, Peru, Alfred L. Kroeber's 1926 Expedition’, 1998, Altamira Press, Walnut Creek-London- New Delhi, pp.: 94-96, figs. 90, 91. For further reading see Donald A. Proulx, ‘A Sourcebook of Nasca Ceramic Iconography, Reading a Culture through its Art’, 2006, University of Iowa Press.
The Date range for the Nasca period is based on Christopher Donnan, 'Ceramics of Ancient Peru', Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, 1992.
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Roll-out drawing by Garth Denning. Nasca Archive Drawing Number: 0059
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1941
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1941,04.24
