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Creation Date

2018

Description

Vessel 87 (2003.08.742)

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: Jar

RIM AND LIP FORM: direct rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip

CORE COLOR: G (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouding and organic residue on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 4.5 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

HEIGHT (IN CM): 14.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.7

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 9.1

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.5

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.82

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim has horizontal brushing marks, and there is a row of large tool punctation sat the rim-body juncture. The vessel body is divided into four panels by vertical appliqued fillets. Each panel is filled with a series of incised chevrons, with a single vertical row of tool punctations at the center of the incised chevrons.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE [IF KNOWN]: Pease Brushed-Incised

Pease Brushed-Incised jar, Vessel 87, Burial 18.

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Keywords

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

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