Vessels for the Other World: Five Examples of Ceremonial Vessels Held on One Hand of Sican Elite Funerary Bundles
Abstract
Excavations over the last two decades by members of the Sican Archaelogical Project (PAS) at the Pómac Forest Historical Sanctuary in Batán Grande, in the middle La Leche Valley on the Peruvian North Coast, have produced the discovery of Middle Sican period (AD 900-1000) elite tombs, with a certain degree of complexity, where main funerary bundles have fake arms and hands, and hold a characteristic vase on one hand as a toast to gods or ancestors in the journey to another life. We analyze five such vases, four of them from Huaca Loro and one from Huaca Las Ventanas, both located at the Sican Ceremonial Site. This vases show morphological and iconographic characteristics that are unique and differ from the rest of Middle Sican vases previously studied by the author.
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