Burial Urn with Female Effigy Figure
Arts of the Americas
MEDIUM
Ceramic, pigment, slip
DATES
1000–1500 C.E.
DIMENSIONS
A: 16 x 8 9/16 in. (40.6 x 21.7 cm)
B: 18 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (47 x 21 cm)
ACCESSION NUMBER
49.191.1a-b
CREDIT LINE
Frank L. Babbott Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Nude female figure with hands resting on knees seated on top of the half-domed lid (b) of a cylindrical funerary urn (a). Cylindrical burial urns with rounded bases and an effigy figure seated on the top, such as this example, are typical of Moskito-style pottery. Several similar urns containing the bones of a secondary burial were found in a mound-covered stone tomb in an ancient cemetery near Ocuña, in the Magdalena Valley of Colombia.
Condition: right ear and right breast on the lid figure are reconstructions.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
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