Title

Vessel 230, 2003.08.440

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

Vessel 230 (2003.08.440), found 1.52 m outside Burial 2

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: compound bowl

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; grayish-brown fire clouding on the rim, body, and base

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; fire clouding on the body and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.3 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 7.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 16.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 15.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 7.0

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.90

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The upper panel is plain, but the lower panel has 10 oval-shaped areas defined by sets of two closely-spaced and vertically arcing engraved lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE [IF KNOWN]: cf. Simms Engraved

Simms Engraved compound bowl, Vessel 230.

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Recommended Citation

Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "Vessel 230, 2003.08.440" (2018). Index of Texas Archaeology: Simms Engraved. 58.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-simmsengraved/58