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Creation Date
2019
Description
VESSEL NO.: 4-18-85
VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl
NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog
RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded, exterior folded 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 body and base
WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.7 mm
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.8
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 16.5
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 16.3
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.5; circular and flat
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.87
DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved slanting scroll repeated four times around the vessel. The scrolls are divided by hatched brackets. The upper and lower scroll fill zones have excised triangles and vertical lines as well as excised columns with triangular appendages.
PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none
TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified
Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified carinated bowl.
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Recommended Citation
Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "Arms Creek, 4-18-85" (2019). Index of Texas Archaeology: Ripley Engraved. 416.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-ripleyengraved/416
Keywords
American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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