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Creation Date
2019
Description
VESSEL NO.: Burial 8, Vessel 34; 2003.08.403
NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog
VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl
RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip
CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body; green glauconitic clay pigment stains
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 7.0 mm
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
HEIGHT (IN CM): 4.8
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 13.0
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.4
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 4.2; circular and flat
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.37
DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel. The scrolls are divided from each other by excised brackets. Above and below each scroll is a single large and open pendant triangle.
There is a horizontal engraved line on the vessel interior surface at the carination.
PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: white pigment in engraved lines
TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Ripley Engraved, cf. var. Gandy
Ripley Engraved, cf. var. Gandy carinated bowl, Frank Smith cemetery, Burial 8, Vessel 34.
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Recommended Citation
Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "41UR326, Burial 8, Vessel 34, 2003.08.403" (2019). Index of Texas Archaeology: Ripley Engraved. 429.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-ripleyengraved/429
Keywords
American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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