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2019

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VESSEL NO.: Vessel 4; 2003.08.433

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown

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

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.5 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 17.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 17.0

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

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.84

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has a scroll and hooked arm motif (at either end of the scroll) that is repeated four times around the vessel. The scrolls are divided by open brackets with one short spur element on both sides of the bracket. The upper and lower scroll fill zones have excised brackets, curvilinear lines, and a single hooked arm element.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: white pigment in engraved lines

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Taylor Engraved

Taylor Engraved carinated bowl, I. P. Starr cemetery, Vessel 4.

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Keywords

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

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