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2018

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Clements

VESSEL NO.: 102, Burial H-15

VESSEL FORM: Deep bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: bone

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: red

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: red

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 5.4 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 10.8

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 14.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): N/A

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.4; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.2

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The interior and exterior surfaces of this vessel have a red slip. The rim of the vessel has an engraved motif repeated seven times around the vessel: the motif is a meandering scroll that ends in a hooked arm element. The upper and lower scroll fill zones are triangular in shape and filled with vertical hatched lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Taylor Engraved

Taylor Engraved deep bowl (Vessel No. 102) in Burial H-15 at the Clements site.

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Keywords

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

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