Plate

Artist Pre-Columbian

DateAD 1430-1530

MediumCeramic

ClassificationsContainers

Credit LineGift of Thomas Wilber

Object number1980.1.16

DescriptionFlat clay plate with two pairs of opposed lugs. Reddish buff clay, the upper surface painted a dull orange with narrow border of sawtooth design in black. Three red and two white stripes are painted with narrow black lines in a "triglyph and metope" design. This pottery style was mass produced under centralized government supervision and is distinctively Inca, owing little or nothing to earlier cultural traditions in ancient Peru.

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