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Creation Date
2018
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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: T. M. Sanders
VESSEL NO.: 673, disturbed burial plowed up in 1940
VESSEL FORM: Deep barrel-shaped bowl with one suspension hole (9.0 mm in diameter)
NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: bone
RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip
CORE COLOR: G (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark grayish-brown
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body
WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.9 mm; body, 7.9 mm
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
HEIGHT (IN CM): N/A
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 13.4
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 12.1
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: N/A
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): N/A
DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The top part of the rim of the vessel has two horizontal engraved lines. The remainder of the rim is divided into seven panels by sets of three vertical engraved lines. Pendant from the outer engraved lines are large open and hatched (vertical or diagonal in orientation) pendant triangles.
PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none
TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Sanders Engraved
Sanders Engraved bowl in disturbed burial at the T. M. Sanders site (41LR2).
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Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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