Title

41CS25, 81, Burial H-12

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

2018

Description

SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Clements

VESSEL NO.: 81, Burial H-12

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

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: strong brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.4 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 13.3

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 22.1

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 20.9

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.6; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 2.6

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has seven engraved upper and lower scroll fill zones on either side of a negative or empty meandering scroll. Each of the scroll fill zones is filled with vertical hatched engraved lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Simms Engraved

Simms Engraved carinated bowl (Vessel No. 81) in Burial H-12 at the Clements site.

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Recommended Citation

Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "41CS25, 81, Burial H-12" (2018). Index of Texas Archaeology: Simms Engraved. 23.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-simmsengraved/23