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Creation Date
2018
Description
Vessel 84 (2003.08.729)
NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog
VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl
RIM AND LIP FORM: direct rim and a rounded, exterior folded and flattened lip; Redwine mode rim (see Walters 2010)
CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; fire clouding
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouding on the rim, body, and base
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 3.7 mm; body, 5.3 mm
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed
HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.4
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 17.5
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 15.3
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 5.2
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.88
DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll motif repeated five times around the vessel. The scroll is comprised of a sideways negative S-element outline by cross-hatched negative ovals in the upper and lower scroll fill zones. Each scroll is divided by hatched vertical brackets.
PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: white clay pigment in the engraved lines on the rim panel
TYPE [IF KNOWN]: Ripley Engraved, var. Gandy
Ripley Engraved, var. Gandy carinated bowl, Burial 18, Vessel 84.
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Recommended Citation
Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "41UR315, Burial 18, Vessel 84" (2018). Index of Texas Archaeology: Ripley Engraved. 225.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-ripleyengraved/225
Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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