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2019

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VESSEL NO.: Burial 7, Vessel 22; 2003.08.785

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog; sandy paste

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: reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown; fire clouding on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.7 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 14.3

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 25.3

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 25.1

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.6; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 3.3

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel. Above and below each scroll are small excised pendant triangles. The scrolls are divided by excised bracket elements.

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

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Ripley Engraved, cf. var. Gandy carinated bowl, Frank Smith cemetery, Burial 7, Vessel 22.

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Keywords

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

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