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Creation Date
2019
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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Lester Bros. Place
CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a grave in a Caddo cemetery exposed during the dynamiting of a Red River levee, June 1929.
ACCESSION NO.: 5425-878
VESSEL NO.: V-521
NON-PLASTICS: grog
VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl with a cut-down rim
RIM AND LIP FORM: Inverted rim with a rounded lip
CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.2 mm, rim
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
HEIGHT (IN CM): 4.9
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 11.8
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 11.9
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): N/A, rounded base
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.35 liters
DECORATION: Only a portion of an interlocking scroll motif is preserved on the cut-down rim by four sets of gracefully curved lines that extend from the rim carination point (the Evans 1 rim pattern, Schambach and Miller 1984:122 and Figure 11-6).
TYPE: cf. Glassell Engraved, var. Atkins
Glassell Engraved, var. Atkins carinated bowl (5425-878).
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Keywords
American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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