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Creation Date
2019
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Battle Place
CONTEXT INFORMATION: Found in a grave on the Henry Moore (Battle) place, 1924
ACCESSION NO.: 5425-638
VESSEL NO.: V-255
NON-PLASTICS: grog
VESSEL FORM: Jar
RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim with a rounded and exterior folded lip; the vessel is also lip notched
CORE COLOR: N/A
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light yellowish-brown
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 4.4 mm, rim
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim and the body
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the base
HEIGHT (IN CM): 9.7
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 10.4
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 8.7
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 7.6
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.61 liters
DECORATION: The rim has several closely-spaced rows of stamping, and the vessel body is almost completely covered with closely-spaced fingernail impressed or stamped rows; there is a single horizontal trailed line near the vessel base. Arcing across the vessel body and the fingernail impressed-stamped decoration is a trailed hooked arm scroll with adjacent upper and lower curvilinear scrolls.
TYPE: Cowhide Stamped
Cowhide Stamped jar (5425-638) from the Battle Place.
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Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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