Jar

Pot

40-16-196

From: Panama | Sitio Conte

Curatorial Section: American

Object Number 40-16-196
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Cocle
Provenience Panama | Sitio Conte
Site Name Sitio Conte
Culture Area Central American
Locus Burial 11
Date Made 450 - 900 CE
Section American
Materials Ceramic
Description

Round base. Squat jar or pot. Recurved rim. Two perforated horizontal lug handles on opposite sides. Red stripe circling rim. Signs of red paint on body. Badly eroded. Part of rim broken off and missing. See: Field card: T2. B11, card #24: "127. Same as 119 and 118. i.e.: Squat jar. Rounded base. Recurved rim. 2 lug handles - - - " See: J. A. Mason's diary, p. 66, "B11, #127. Red, round bottom pot. Wide orifice. 2 lug handles, perforated at opposite sides. In wall near S.E. corner. Rim broken"

Credit Line Panama, Cocle Expedition; J. Alden Mason, 1940
Other Number B11 - 127 - Field No SF

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