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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns

VESSEL NO.: Burial 19, Pot 3

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a flat lip

CORE COLOR: A (fired and cooled in an oxidizing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-red (5YR 5/6); fire clouding on the body

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-red (5YR 5/6); fire clouding on the body and base

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

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 4.8

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 14.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 12.7

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 7.6

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.42 liters

DECORATION: The rim has an engraved bisected diamond motif repeated four times around the vessel; each bisected diamond motif has four inner triangles (whose apexes meet in the center of the panel) filled with smaller engraved elements. Each motif is set in a panel defined by either vertical hatched, cross-hatched or excised zones.

Two of the bisected diamond motif panels have upper and lower triangles within them with negative ovals as well as excised or cross-hatched triangles in the two horizontal triangles. One of the panels has only three inner triangles, and two of these have a smaller inner cross-hatched triangle while the third has a smaller triangle with a negative oval within it. The last of the panels has four inner triangles, two with smaller cross-hatched triangles and two with negative ovals within them.

TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. Reed

Ripley Engraved, var. Reed carinated bowl, Burial 19, Pot 3.

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Keywords

American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology

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