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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Paul Mitchell

VESSEL NO.: 6-2-83, Burial 32

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl with four lip tabs

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded, exterior folded lip

CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 3.5 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 3.7

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 10.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.5; circular and rounded

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.2

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim is divided into four panels by vertical excised brackets. Each panel has upper and lower scroll fill zones, on either side of a negative or open slanting scroll, with three sets of short vertical engraved lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: red clay pigment in the engraved lines

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): cf. Simms Engraved

Simms Engraved carinated bowl in Burial 32 at the Paul Mitchell site (41BW4).

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Keywords

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

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