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2019

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VESSEL NO.: Burial 1, Vessel 4; 2003.08.114

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone; sandy paste

VESSEL FORM: Jar with four rim peaks and four strap handles (Figure 170)

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip

CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown; thick organic residue and resin staining on the rim and body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 4.7 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

HEIGHT (IN CM): 15.9

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 17.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 14.5

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.3; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.7

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim is decorated with a continuous series of closely spaced and deep vertical incised lines. The vessel body has an appliqued fillet circle and scroll motif repeated four times around the body. The upper and lower scroll elements are two sets of curvilinear appliqued fillets.

The strap handles are decorated with three vertical pinched ridges.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Harleton Appliqued

Harleton Appliqued jar, Herbert Taft cemetery, Burial 1, Vessel 4.

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Keywords

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

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