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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Jim P. Allen

VESSEL NO.: 41CE12-180; Burial AH-15

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and hematite

VESSEL FORM: Globular bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded lip

CORE COLOR: A (fired and cooled in an oxidizing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown; fire clouds on the body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.2 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim and the upper body

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim

HEIGHT (IN CM): 10.8

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.8

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 9.5

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.6; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.8

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel is defined by single upper and lower horizontal engraved lines with either downward- or upward-pointing excised tick marks. The panel is divided into seven rectangular sections by equally-spaced vertical engraved lines. The vessel body has two sets of engraved concentric spirals. These are divided at their upper ends by large upper and lower engraved pendant triangles; each of these pendant triangles have two smaller triangular elements within them.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: white pigment in the engraved lines

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Poynor Engraved, var. Freeman

Poynor Engraved, var. Freeman globular bowl from the Jim P. Allen site.

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Keywords

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

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