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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Tuck Carpenter

VESSEL NO.: Burial 8, Pot 6

NON-PLASTICS: grog

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: light yellowish-brown (10YR 6/4)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light yellowish-brown (10YR 6/4)

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.6 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 6.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 11.4

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.9

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.1

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.42 liters

DECORATION: The rim panel has an engraved continuous scroll motif (Thurmond 1990) repeated four times around the vessel rim. There is a single vertical engraved line separating each of the continuous scroll motifs. The upper and lower scroll fill zones include ovals and triangular excised areas. A red clay pigment has also been rubbed in the engraved lines.

TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. Carpenter

Ripley Engraved, var. Carpenter carinated bowl, Burial 8, Pot 6, Tuck Carpenter site.

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Keywords

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

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