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Creation Date
2019
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Pierce Freeman
VESSEL NO.: 41AN34-1
NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: hematite
VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a long, narrow, cylindrical body
RIM AND LIP FORM: N/A
CORE COLOR: G (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellow
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): neck, 8.7 mm
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none
HEIGHT (IN CM): 20.7+
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 5.8
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): N/A; 10.4 cm wide at its widest point
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.3; circular and flat
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): >0.6
DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel body has vertical panels repeated four times that are filled with cross-hatched engraved lines; the panels begin at a single horizontal engraved line below the bottle neck. The panels extend more than halfway down the vessel body
PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none
TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Hume Engraved, var. Hume
Hume Engraved, var. Hume bottle from the Pierce Freeman site.
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Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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