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Creation Date
2018
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: T. M. Sanders
VESSEL NO.: 517, Burial B-20
VESSEL FORM: Neckless bottle with two opposed suspension holes (8.0 mm in diameter)
NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog
RIM AND LIP FORM: Inverted rim and rounded lip
CORE COLOR: G (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown; fire clouds on the body
WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 7.0 mm
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
HEIGHT (IN CM): 32.0
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.4
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): N/A; maximum body diameter is 20.0 cm
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 12.7; circular and flat
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.6
DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The upper part of the vessel has a single horizontal engraved line with three large engraved pendant triangles. Each pendant triangle is filled with cross-hatched engraved lines.
PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none
TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Sanders Engraved
Sanders Engraved neckless bottle in Burial B-20 at the T. M. Sanders site (41LR2).
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Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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