Title

3LA1, V-2003

Preview

image preview

Creation Date

2019

Description

SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Battle Place

CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a grave (Burial 3) in Burial Plot 2 (Martin 1939). Associated vessels include V-1999 to V-2002 and V-2004 and V-2004 ½.

ACCESSION NO.: 5425-671

VESSEL NO.: V-2003

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim with a rounded and exterior folded lip

CORE COLOR: G (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in a high oxygen environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray; fire clouds on the rim and body

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light yellowish-brown; fire clouding

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.1 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the rim and body

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the rim and body

HEIGHT (IN CM): 5.7

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 17.1

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 15.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): N/A, rounded base

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.58 liters

DECORATION: The rim is divided into two panels with an horizontal interlocking engraved scroll motif; there are also small linear ticks under the lip and at the vessel carination. The scroll motif consists of a narrow horizontal and vertical engraved band filled with hatched lines, a single enclosing engraved line, and hatched brackets that end either at the rim or at the vessel carination; between the two brackets in each motif is a single small horizontally-oriented engraved rectangle.

Each motif is separated from the other by two sets of two vertical hatched brackets. Between each of the engraved brackets is a single vertically-oriented engraved rectangle.

TYPE: Handy Engraved

Handy Engraved carinated bowl (5425-671).

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Keywords

American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology

Share

Image Location

 
COinS

Tell us how this article helped you.