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3LA48, V-173

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2019

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Lester Bros. Plantation, 1929

CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a grave in a Caddo cemetery.

ACCESSION NO.: 5425-909

VESSEL NO.: V-173

NON-PLASTICS: fine grog

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a bulbous or spool-shaped neck

RIM AND LIP FORM: Flaring or everted rim with a rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black; brown fire clouds on the body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.2 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the neck

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 19.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.3

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 4.8; 16.0 cm at the widest part of the body

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.25

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.48 liters

DECORATION: Immediately below the bottle neck is a narrow zone of closely-spaced opposed hatched engraved lines. Below that are three stacked tiers of cross-hatched engraved fill zones and negative meandering scrolls that are repeated four times around the vessel. Each of the cross-hatched engraved zones has eight negative ovals within it. Radiating from a single engraved line that encircles the base are four triangles with cross-hatched engraved corners and a single central negative oval; each triangle has a single graceful curved line that hooks towards the bottom of the cross-hatched fill zones.

TYPE: Hodges Engraved, var. Candler

Hodges Engraved, var. Candler bottle (5425-909): a, side view; b, view of the vessel base.

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Keywords

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

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