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Creation Date
2019
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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Jim P. Allen
VESSEL NO.: 41CE12-167; Burial AH-13
NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and hematite
VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a cylindrical body and short neck (i.e., Hume Engraved form, see Suhm and Jelks 1962:Plate 42a-c, e)
RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and flat lip
CORE COLOR: A (fired and cooled in an oxidizing environment)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brownish-yellow
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brownish-yellow; fire clouds on the neck and body
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.9 mm
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the neck
HEIGHT (IN CM): 16.8
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.0
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.4; 10.8 cm at the widest point on the body
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.0; circular and flat
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.5
DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The bottle neck has a single horizontal engraved line at the base of the neck, as well as a series of vertical engraved lines around the neck. The vessel body has vertical brushing marks.
PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none
TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Hume Engraved, var. unspecified
Hume Engraved, var. unspecified bottle from the Jim P. Allen site.
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Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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