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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Tuck Carpenter

VESSEL NO.: Burial 6, Pot 7

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Compound bowl; there is at least one suspension hole on the upper rim panel. The vessel is glauconite-stained on both interior and exterior vessel surfaces.

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and a rounded lip

CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray (10YR 3/1)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray (10YR 3/1)

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.2 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 6.6

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.8

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 8.4

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 3.6

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.51 liters

DECORATION: The upper rim panel has three broadly-spaced horizontal engraved lines. The lower rim panel has an engraved continuous scroll motif (Thurmond 1990) repeated four times around the vessel. There is also a single engraved line on the interior of the vessel that encircles the base. The scroll fill zones include a single excised triangle. A red clay pigment has also been rubbed in the engraved lines.

TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. Carpenter

Ripley Engraved, var. Carpenter compound bowl, Burial 6, Pot 7, Tuck Carpenter site.

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Keywords

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

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