Title

Vessel 23, Burial 5, 2003.08.1761

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 23 (2003.08.1761)

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and hematite

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a carinated body and a tapered neck

RIM AND LIP FORM: direct rim and a rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; grayish-brown fire clouding

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; grayish-brown fire clouds on the neck and body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.0 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the neck and body

HEIGHT (IN CM): 14.9

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 3.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.8; 14.3 cm is the maximum body diameter

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.1

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.54

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel body has an engraved design set below three horizontal engraved lines at the top of the vessel body. The motif, hooked arms, is repeated four times around the vessel. Each hooked arm element is filled with hatched lines around a negative oval. Dividers between each of the hooked arm elements are narrow vertical zones also filled with a small negative oval and hatched engraved lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: red pigment in engraved design on the vessel body

TYPE [IF KNOWN]: Taylor Engraved

Taylor Engraved bottle, Vessel 23, Burial 5.

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Recommended Citation

Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "Vessel 23, Burial 5, 2003.08.1761" (2018). Index of Texas Archaeology: Taylor Engraved. 44.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-taylorengraved/44