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3LA38, V-294

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2019

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Geo. W. Sentell Place

CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a grave in a Caddo cemetery, excavated by W. L. Conevy in 1909.

ACCESSION NO.: 5425-775

VESSEL NO.: V-294

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Tripod bottle with hollow legs; the bottle has a straight neck

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.5 mm, neck

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the upper neck

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the neck, body, and legs

HEIGHT (IN CM): 19.6

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 5.2

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.2

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

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): est. 0.5 liters

DECORATION: Each of the legs of the tripod bottle has been engraved with vertical bands of nearly horizontal hatching. On one of the legs there are two vertical bands of engraved lines filled with sets (of three lines) of horizontal hatched lines; on the two other legs, there is a single hatched line next to a hatched vertical band; this hatched line joins with a triangular set of hatched bands and a small excised triangle between them. Each of the legs are connected by a vertical to curvilinear engraved band filled with hatched lines.

TYPE: Hodges Engraved fine ware tripod bottle (see Webb 1959:Figure 107n)

Hodges Engraved fine ware tripod bottle from the Geo. W. Sentell Place (5425-775).

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Keywords

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

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