Title

Vessel 56, Burial 12, 2003.08.399

Creator

Timothy K. Perttula, Heritage Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State UniversityFollow
Robert Z. Selden Jr., Heritage Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State UniversityFollow

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Creation Date

2018

Description

Vessel 56 (2003.08.399)

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: 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: burnished on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 6.6

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 16.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 14.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 5.7

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.65

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll and circle motif repeated six times around the vessel. The central circle element has either one or two open circles. The upper and lower parts of the panel are either plain or have upper and lower tick marks; in two instances, the central scroll line has tick marks, not the upper and lower panel engraved lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE [IF KNOWN]: cf. Ripley Engraved, var. Galt

Ripley Engraved, var. Galt carinated bowl, Vessel 56, Burial 12.

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Recommended Citation

Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "Vessel 56, Burial 12, 2003.08.399" (2018). Index of Texas Archaeology: Ripley Engraved. 255.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-ripleyengraved/255