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Creation Date

2018

Description

Vessel 199 (2003.08.1762)

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone (<5% of temper inclusions)

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a carinated body

RIM AND LIP FORM: direct 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 lower body and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.1 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 20.3

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 5.2

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.0; maximum body width is 15.4 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.0

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.73

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel body has four sets of engraved concentric circles. Three sets have a central circle with a swastika in circle motif, as well as a second circle with pendant triangles. The fourth central circle does not have a swastika in circle element. The circles are divided by cross-hatched brackets. At the top of the brackets are four small concentric circle elements, three of which have a central inner circle. Finally, there are three sets of four vertical engraved lines at the bottom of each of the central circle motifs.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified bottle, Vessel 199, Burial 35.

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Keywords

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

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