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Description: | This ceramic double spouted jar with bridge 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. It is brightly decorated with human figures. A band of human masks runs around the base of the jar. Double spouted and bridge vessels like this example, are one of the oldest ceramic forms known in Nazca art. 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.
Material: ceramic | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.worldarchaeology.21136 | Go to resource |
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