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Creation Date
2019
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Battle Place
CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a grave (Burial 1) in Burial Plot 3 (Martin 1939). Associated with V-2007 to V-2009 and V-2011 to V-2013.
ACCESSION NO.: 5425-696
VESSEL NO.: V-2010
NON-PLASTICS: grog
VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a collar at the bottom of the neck
RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded lip
CORE COLOR: L (incompletely oxidized; possibly smudged or re-heated)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown, fire clouds on the neck
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black, with fire clouds on the neck and body
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 4.8 mm, rim
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the upper neck
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the neck and body
HEIGHT (IN CM): 17.7
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.8
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.3; 12.5 cm wide at the widest part of the bottle body
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.9
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.70 liters
DECORATION: There are three horizontal engraved lines immediately below the base of the bottle neck and an accompanying set of three horizontal lines near the vessel base. The body has three panels created by vertical engraved lines, and each panel features a complex and unique series of hatched circular, semi-circular, rectangle, and scroll elements.
The panels are divided in half by a horizontal and semi-circular hatched band with hatched spurs, with a hatched scroll and semi-circle in the upper part of the panel. The lower left part of the panel has hatched rectangles, while the lower right portion of the panel has engraved semi-circles. The main semi-circle in each panel has three hatched bands within it.
TYPE: cf. Haley Engraved
Haley Engraved bottle (5425-696).
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Keywords
American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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