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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns

VESSEL NO.: Burial 1, Pot 4

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Compound bowl with four rim peaks

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and a rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark gray (10YR 4/2); fire clouding on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown (10YR 5/3); fire clouding on the rim, body, and base

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

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

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the rim and smoothed on the body

HEIGHT (IN CM): 9.1; 10.0 cm at the rim peaks

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 13.3

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 11.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.4

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.97 liters

DECORATION: The upper rim panel has a narrow engraved horizontal band below the lip that is composed of sets of vertical and diagonal lines on either side of small hatched triangles. The lower rim panel has a scroll motif (var. Gandy) repeated four times around the vessel. The scrolls are divided by characteristic negative S-shaped elements.

TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified, but cf. var. Gandy

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified compound bowl, Burial 1, Pot 4.

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Keywords

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

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