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2019

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VESSEL NO.: Burial 2, Vessel 17; 2003.08.704

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog; sandy paste

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 10.0 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 10.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 19.8

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 21.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.0; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.2

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has alternating engraved semi-circles and nested triangles that are each repeated around the vessel four times. Each semi-circle has an inner cross in circle element, while the nested triangles have two hatched corners and an oval-shaped element at its apex. There are oval and elongated triangular-shaped elements either above or below each nested triangle.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: white pigment in the engraved lines

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

Ripley Engraved, cf. var. Cash carinated bowl, Enis Smith site, Burial 2, Vessel 17.

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Keywords

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

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