jar
- Museum number
- Am1941,04.44
- Description
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Bulbous jar with short flaring rim. Pottery, painted. Five horizontal, lateral trophy heads in various colours on white background, with carrying chord and lip spikes. Red rim, inside and outside, and base.
- Production date
- 100BC-600
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 10 centimetres (rim)
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Diameter: 9 centimetres (widest point of body)
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Height: 9.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Chipped rim.
- Acquisition date
- 1941
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am1941,04.44
