
Collection Online as of August 10, 2022
Ceramic, pigment (cinnabar?)
Overall: 14.3 x 14.9 cm (5 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Gift of John and Agneta Solomon 2017.55
232 Andean
This ceramic vessel features a supine human being pecked by two birds that perch on the vessel’s doughnut-shaped chamber. The identity of the apparently mythical creature modeled in low relief on the sides of the stirrup-shaped spout is unknown. Little can be said about meaning beyond pointing out an obvious reference to death.