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2019

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VESSEL NO.: Burial 7, Vessel 48; 2003.08.346

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; fire cloud on the base

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 8.1 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 13.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 27.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 26.8

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 9.0

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 2.1

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has two engraved circle within circle elements that alternate with two nested diamonds; the nested diamonds have a smaller diamond within them. The inner circle in the circle in circle element has a continuous series of small tick marks.

The nested diamond element is the central feature of horizontal scrolls that extend, but do not touch, the circle in circle elements. Above and below each of the scrolls are small excised pendant triangles.

There is also a single horizontal engraved line on the interior vessel surface at the carination.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Ripley Engraved, var. McKinney

Ripley Engraved, var. McKinney carinated bowl, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 7, Vessel 48.

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Keywords

American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology

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