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2019

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: H. R. Taylor (41HS3)

VESSEL NO.: 695, GP 41047, TARL 2017.0131

VESSEL FORM: Jar with four rim peaks and four handles at the rim peaks; the handles are 20 x 15 mm in height and width

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip

CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown; fire clouds on the rim and body

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.2

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

HEIGHT (IN CM): 15.7

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 14.7

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 15.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.4 cm, circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.4

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim of the vessel has vertical incised lines. The vessel body has horizontal appliqued fillets at the top and bottom, as well as four sets of appliqued fillet scrolls and circles (with a central inner appliqued node). There are sets of curvilinear appliqued fillets both above and below the scroll and circle elements, as well as four upper appliqued pendant triangles that divide the scrolls. the areas between the curvilinear fillets and the scroll and circle elements have curvilinear or horizontal brushed marks and incised lines. The four handles have rows of tool punctations.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Harleton Appliqued (see Suhm and Jelks 1962:Plate 33)

Harleton Appliqued jar from the H. R. Taylor site (41HS3).

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Keywords

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

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