Preview

image preview

Creation Date

2018

Description

SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Goode Hunt (41CS23)

VESSEL NO.: 1, isolated find east of Burial I-11. The small size of the vessel suggests it was likely placed with a child whose bones have eroded away since the deceased was interred.

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl with three rim peaks

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Inverted rim and rounded lip

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

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

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.2 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on rim; smoothed on the body

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 3.7

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.4

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 4.8; circular and rounded

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.22

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim is divided into six engraved panels defined by a single upper horizontal engraved line with excised and downward-pointing tick marks and sets of vertical and curvilinear lines. Within the panel are a horizontal engraved scroll line as well as two horizontal engraved lines with downward-pointing excised tick marks.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Simms Engraved carinated bowl (Vessel No. 1) from the Goode Hunt site, possibly from a child burial.

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Download Medium Thumbnail

Keywords

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

Share

Image Location

 
COinS

Tell us how this article helped you.