Title

Red River County, Texas, GTW-456 [TX 122/1]

Creator

Timothy K. Perttula, Heritage Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State UniversityFollow
Robert Z. Selden Jr., Heritage Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State UniversityFollow

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Creation Date

2020

Description

SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: George T. Wright Collection, Red River County, Texas

VESSEL NO.: GTW-456 [TX 122/1], B. R. R.

VESSEL FORM: Bowl with rounded shoulders

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: shell

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown; fire clouds on the body and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 3.6 mm; body, 4.9 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 11.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 11.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.5 cm, circular and convex

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.4

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The lower rim panel is marked by a single horizontal engraved line; the upper rim panel is plain. The panel has four sets of rectilinear engraved elements with upward-pointing tick marks on the lowermost engraved line. The decorative elements are similar to Inscribed 1b on Simms Engraved vessels recognized by Dowd, except that that vessel has tick marks along all lines. The rim has also been notched from left to right on the lip.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Simms Engraved

Simms Engraved bowl, GTW-456.

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Recommended Citation

Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "Red River County, Texas, GTW-456 [TX 122/1]" (2020). Index of Texas Archaeology: Simms Engraved. 113.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-simmsengraved/113