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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns

VESSEL NO.: Burial 3, Pot 1

NON-PLASTICS: grog and bone

VESSEL FORM: Compound bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and a rounded lip

CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray (10YR 3/1)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray (10YR 3/1)

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.4 mm, rim; 6.7 mm, body; 8.4 mm, base

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): N/A

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 33.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): N/A

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.9

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): N/A

DECORATION: The upper rim panel has four broadly-spaced horizontal engraved lines. The lower rim panel has engraved alternate nested triangles and semi-circles that are repeated four times around the rim. Within each nested triangle are two smaller triangles, the innermost of which has a negative oval element created by hatching the corners and sides of the triangle. There is also a single negative oval nestled within two of the triangles. The nested semi-circles have a smaller semi-circle within it. Within that smaller semi-circle is a negative horizontal S-shaped element formed by hatching.

TYPE: cf. Ripley Engraved, var. Williams

Ripley Engraved, var. Williams compound bowl, Burial 3, Pot 1.

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Keywords

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

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