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Creation Date

2018

Description

Vessel 138 (2003.08.263)

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and hematite

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a globular body

RIM AND LIP FORM: everted rim and a rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouding on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 4.7 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 16.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.0; maximum body width is 11.0 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 7.2

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.47

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): Defined by two upper and lower horizontal engraved lines, the vessel body has a circle and scroll motif repeated three times around the vessel. The central circle element is comprised of three increasingly larger concentric circles, the second of which has pendant triangles on it. The outermost circle is connected to the continuous scroll engraved line. The upper and lower scroll fill zones are triangles (one or two) with small open or excised triangles within; the larger triangles in the scroll fill zones have inward-pointing pendant triangles, while the smaller triangles have tick marks on them.

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

TYPE [IF KNOWN]: Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified bottle, Vessel 138, Burial 27.

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Keywords

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

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