Title
Preview
Creation Date
2019
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Wm. Handy Place
CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a grave in a cemetery excavated by Horace McClendon in the fall of 1941. Associated vessels (from several graves dug at that time) include V-2342 to V-2365.
ACCESSION NO.: 5425-2036
VESSEL NO.: V-2354
NON-PLASTICS: grog
VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl
RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded, exterior folded, lip
CORE COLOR: A (fired and cooled in a high oxygen environment)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown with very dark grayish-brown fire clouds
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.0 mm, rim; 7.0 mm, base
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim and body
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the rim and body
HEIGHT (IN CM): 4.0
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 11.4
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.8
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): N/A (base is missing)
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.27 liters
DECORATION: The rim has two rectilinear engraved panels defined by two sets of either vertical excised or cross-hatched zones. Within each of the panels are horizontal interlocking lines and a single horizontal ticked line, as well as two excised brackets that extend from the rim and carination to the central horizontal ticked line. The top and bottom of the rectilinear panel also has small triangular tick marks.
TYPE: Glassell Engraved, var. Glassell (Kelley 1997:50)
Glassell Engraved, var. Glassell carinated bowl (5425-2036).
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Keywords
American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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