vase
- Museum number
- Am1941,04.35
- Description
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Narrow cylindrical flared vase. Painted pottery. Four horizontal bands of designs on white background. From top:
1- unkown spiked motifs in red, brown, orange and cream.
2- stepped black and white geometric pattern.
3- two times creature with spikes, large up-turned eyes, and rayed headdress. Large downturned mouth (?). Small legs and feet with spikes on heels.
Most similar to the "yellow-eyed and fan-headed Anthromorphic Mythical Being" AMB -7-C (see Proulx 2006, fig.5.28 p.76). Small trophy heads between the two creatures.
4- stepped black and white geometric pattern.
- Production date
- 100BC-600
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 9 centimetres (base)
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Diameter: 10.50 centimetres (rim)
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Height: 23 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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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.
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: 0165
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Restored from fragments. Paint damaged / chipped.
- Acquisition date
- 1941
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1941,04.35
