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Description: | This is a round bottomed terracotta pot. It is decorated in black, white, brown-red and purple paint and is covered in a fine glaze. The designs on the pot are of 3 birds with stylised human heads. The pot comes from Peru in South America and dates to the Nazca period. The Nazca culture prospered along the coastal plain of South Peru from about 200 BC-AD 600. Brightly coloured vessels like this example, known as 'polychrome ceramics' were unique to this area of South America. Polychrome ceramics were reserved for the elite and were used as grave goods. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | archaeology prehistoric | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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