Dish painted with a large ten pointed star. Height 4.8 cm.; diameter 15.9 cm. Painted in three colors. The entire interior background as well as the exterior wall is dark red. The star is black outlined in white. Double vertical lines in white decorate the interior wall. The exterior bottom is unslipped. Illustrated by Kroeber, 1956, Plate 32g.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Grave 4, Ocucaje Site F, Ica Valley
Verbatim coll. place:
Ocucaje, Site F: Grave 4
Culture or time period:
Early Intermediate Period 3B, ancient Peru and Nazca culture (100 BC–800 AD)