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2018

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Clements

VESSEL NO.: 95, Burial H-14

VESSEL FORM: Deep Bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and shell

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: red

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: red

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 5.2 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 12.5

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 16.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 14.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.7; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.6

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel has a red slip on both interior and exterior surfaces. It is decorated with a series of five upper and lower curvilinear zones with hooked arm elements. The engraved zones each have a negative circle outlined by cross-hatched engraved lines that fill the zones.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Hodges Engraved

Hodges Engraved deep bowl (Vessel No. 95) in Burial H-14 at the Clements site.

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Keywords

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

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