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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns

VESSEL NO.: Burial 6, Pot 8

NON-PLASTICS: grog and bone

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black (10YR 2/1); organic residue on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: pale brown (10YR 6/3); organic residue on the rim; fire clouding on the body and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.5 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 11.1

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 21.2

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 21.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 7.8

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.4 liters

DECORATION: The rim has an engraved circle and nested triangle motif repeated four times on the vessel. Each of the large circles (either within the nested triangle or between the nested triangles) have smaller circles within them, with small triangles and hatched triangles pendant from the outermost circle. The nested triangles have small hatched pendant triangles. There are also sets of hatched triangular elements between the nested triangles and large circles.

TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. Cash

Ripley Engraved, var. Cash carinated bowl, Burial 6, Pot 8.

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Keywords

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

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