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2019

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VESSEL NO.: Burial 9, Vessel 64; 2003.08.292

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

VESSEL FORM: Jar with a short rim

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown with fire clouds on the upper body and rim

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 7.0 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

HEIGHT (IN CM): 16.6

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 10.8

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.3

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.0; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.61

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim of the vessel has an appliqued fillet scroll motif that is repeated four times around the vessel. The scrolls end in hooked arm appliqued fillet elements. Appliqued fillet scroll fill zones have large diagonal opposed incised triangles.

The vessel body is defined by two closely-spaced single horizontal appliqued fillets at the rim-body juncture. There are four large appliqued nodes on the body, placed underneath each of the hooked arm elements on the rim. The remainder of the body has vertical rows of linear tool punctations that extend from just below the rim-body juncture to within 4 cm of the vessel base.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Harleton Appliqued

Harleton Appliqued jar, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 9, Vessel 64.

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American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology

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