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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Clements

VESSEL NO.: 70, Burial H-11

VESSEL FORM: Olla with a spool neck

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

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: reddish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown to brown

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.4 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 30.7

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 8.9

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 8.3

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.3; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 2.0

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The upper part of the vessel body has three horizontal engraved lines, while the remainder of the vessel body has four meandering and hooked arm scroll elements outlined by a number of cross-hatched zones and curvilinear scroll lines with linear tick marks. The cross-hatched zones have negative circles within them.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Hodges Engraved

Hodges Engraved olla (Vessel No. 70) from Burial H-11 at the Clements site.

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Keywords

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

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