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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Patton

VESSEL NO.: 2003.08.525, Burial 3, Vessel No. 20

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: bone and grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

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 yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body

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

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 4.4 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 10.8

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 23.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 24.3

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.5; circular and rounded

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.5

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved slanting scroll motif that is repeated four times around the vessel. Each slanting scroll contains hatched hooked arm elements that conjoin, or in one instance has ticked lines instead of hatched lines; the ticking continues onto the scroll line. The scroll motifs are divided by two sets of narrow arcing lines with hatching. The upper and lower scroll fill zones have narrow arcing lines with hatching.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: cf. Taylor Engraved

Taylor Engraved carinated bowl, Burial 3, Vessel No. 20, Patton site.

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Keywords

American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology

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