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Creation Date

2018

Description

Vessel 223 (2003.08.487)

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: Jar

RIM AND LIP FORM: direct rim and a flat lip

CORE COLOR: A (fired and cooled in an oxidizing environment)

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, 5.9 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 11.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 11.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 11.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 7.5

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.73

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim has a series of four engraved negative and reversed vertical S-shaped elements, short horizontal lines, and a divider comprised of upper and lower triangles whose apexes meet. The body is decorated with a scroll and a central engraved oval repeated twice around the vessel. Each oval has a smaller oval within it, and the bottom half of the smaller oval is filled with hatched lines. The oval-shaped element resembles the ogee or portal symbol seen in Southeastern Ceremonial Complex art. The ogee symbol has been “linked to the Otherworld and to serpents” (Reilly 2004:130), and marked the “portals between the different levels of the Native American cosmos” (Reilly 2004:130).

The scroll center line, and the outer lines of the upper and lower scroll fill zones have pendant triangles on them.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified jar, Vessel 223, Burial 38.

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Keywords

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

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