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Creation Date
2018
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns
VESSEL NO.: No #
NON-PLASTICS: grog
VESSEL FORM: Olla
RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded lip
CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)
HEIGHT (IN CM): N/A
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 12.8
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 11.4
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): N/A
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): N/A
DECORATION: The vessel body has an engraved scroll and circle motif repeated six times around the vessel. The central circles have a smaller circle within them that have equal-arm engraved elements that meet at a very small circle. There are hatched and cross-hatched widened areas on both sides of the central circles where the scrolls intersect them. Alternating with the central circles, and either above or below the engraved scroll line, are 12 large pendant triangles with hatched corners. In the center of each of these triangles is a single small engraved circle. A red clay pigment has been rubbed in the engraved lines.
TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified
Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified olla, unknown burial: a, neck and upper body section; b, main body section.
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Recommended Citation
Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "41CP12, Unknown" (2018). Index of Texas Archaeology: Ripley Engraved. 111.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-ripleyengraved/111
Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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