PRE-COLUMBIAN MUSEUM QUALITY POTTERY TIWANAKU VESSEL AD 200 - 800
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PRE-COLUMBIAN MUSEUM QUALITY POTTERY TIWANAKU VESSEL AD 200 - 800:
$500.00
MUSEUM QUALITY PRE-COLUMBIAN TIWANAKU VESSEL AD 200 - 800
Vessel, Bolivia, c. AD 200- 800, with nicely modeled features - large eyes and open mouth, details darkbrown black slip contrasting nicely with orange and red-orange slip. 7 ½ in x 5½ in (19.1 x 13.3 cm). Intact, light deposits. Ex private collection.
Tiahuanaco or Tiahuanacu, is a Pre-Columbianarchaeological site in western Bolivia,South America.
The site was first recorded inwritten history by Spanish conquistador PedroCieza de León. He came upon the remains of Tiwanaku in 1549 whilesearching for the Inca capital.
The name by which Tiwanaku wasknown to its inhabitants may have been lost as they had no written language.[2][3] The Puquina language hasbeen pointed out as the most likely language of the ancient inhabitants ofTiwanaku
The area around Tiwanaku may have been inhabited as earlyas 1500 BC as a small agricultural village.[5] During thetime period between 300 BC and AD 300, Tiwanaku is thought to have been a moraland cosmological center for the Tiwanaku empire towhich many people made pilgrimages.
Tiwanaku is recognized by Andean scholars as one of themost important civilizations prior to the Inca Empire; it was theritual and administrative capital of a major state power for approximately fivehundred years. The ruins of the ancient city state are near the south-Easternshore of LakeTiticaca in TiwanakuMunicipality, IngaviProvince, La Paz Department, about 72km (45mi) west of La Paz.
Tiwanaku expanded its reaches intothe Yungas and brought itsculture and way of life to many other cultures in Peru, Bolivia, and the peopleof the Northern regions of Argentinaand Chile. It was notexclusively a military or violent culture. In order to expand its reach,Tiwanaku used politics to create colonies, negotiate trade agreements (whichmade the other cultures rather dependent), and establish state cults.[10]
Others were drawn into theTiwanaku empire due to religious beliefs, as it continued as a religiouscenter. Force was rarely necessary for the empire to expand[citationneeded], but on the northern end of the Basin,resistance was present. There is evidence that bases of some statues were takenfrom other cultures and carried all the way back to the capital city ofTiwanaku, where the stones were placed in a subordinate position to the Gods ofthe Tiwanaku. They displayed the power their empire had over many.[11]
The Tiwanaku conducted humansacrifices on top of a building known as the Akipana. People were disemboweledand torn apart shortly after death and laid out for all to see. It isspeculated that this ritual was a form of dedication to the gods. Researchshowed that one man who was sacrificed was not a native to the Titicaca Basin,leaving room to think that sacrifices were most likely not of people originallywithiIn 1445 PachacutiInca Yupanqui (the ninth Inca) began conquest of the Titicacaregions. He incorporated and developed what was left from the Tiwanaku patternsof culture, and the Inca officials were superimposed upon the existing localofficials. Quechuawas made the official language and sun worship the official religion. So, thelast traces of the Tiwanaku civilization were integrated or abandoned.n thesociety.
It comes with certificate autenticity.
It would make a superb addition to any collection of Pre-Columbian ceramics.
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PRE-COLUMBIAN MUSEUM QUALITY POTTERY TIWANAKU VESSEL AD 200 - 800:
$500.00