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Creation Date
2019
Description
VESSEL NO.: Burial 3, Vessel 24; 2003.08.795
NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog
VESSEL FORM: Compound bowl
RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted 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 clouds on the rim and body
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 8.3 mm
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed
HEIGHT (IN CM): 27.8
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 28.2
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 28.5
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 10.0; circular and flat
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 6.3
DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The upper rim panel has three widely-spaced horizontal engraved lines. The lower rim panel has an engraved scroll and circle motif repeated four times around the vessel. Each circle has a smaller inner cross in circle element. The upper and lower scroll fill zones have vertical and curvilinear engraved lines.
PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: red pigment in the engraved lines
TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Ripley Engraved, var. Galt
Ripley Engraved, var. Galt compound bowl, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 3, Vessel 24.
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Recommended Citation
Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "41UR317, Burial 3, Vessel 24, 2003.08.795" (2019). Index of Texas Archaeology: Ripley Engraved. 401.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-ripleyengraved/401
Keywords
American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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