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Creation Date
2020
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Tuck Carpenter
VESSEL NO.: Burial 44, Pot 2
NON-PLASTICS: grog
VESSEL FORM: Compound 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: brown (10YR 5/3)
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown (10YR 5/3); fire clouding
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.8 mm, rim; 7.5 mm, body; 10.3 mm, base
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
HEIGHT (IN CM): 18.5
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 28.0
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 30.0
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): N/A
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 4.1 liters
DECORATION: The upper rim panel is plain. The lower rim panel has a simple engraved scroll repeated eight times around the vessel, with hatched and excised vertical column dividers. The upper and lower scroll fill zones include cross-hatched and excised triangles and triangular areas. A white clay pigment has also been rubbed in the engraved lines.
TYPE: cf. Ripley Engraved, var. Carpenter
Ripley Engraved, var. Carpenter compound bowl, Burial 44, Pot 2, Tuck Carpenter site.
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Recommended Citation
Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "Burial 44, Pot 2, Tuck Carpenter" (2020). Index of Texas Archaeology: Ripley Engraved. 545.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-ripleyengraved/545
Keywords
American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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