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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns

VESSEL NO.: Burial 28, Pot 10

NON-PLASTICS: bone and grog; sandy paste

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a straight to flaring neck and a collar at the neck

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded lip

CORE COLOR: A (fired and cooled in an oxidizing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown (10YR 5/3)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown (10YR 5/3); fire clouding on the base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 7.4 mm, neck

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the upper neck

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 16.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.1

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 4.0; 11.3 cm is the maximum body diameter

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.0

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.38 liters

DECORATION: The vessel body has upper and lower hooked arm scrolls that are repeated four times that hook around each other, but only one of the scroll arms ends at a cross and circle element; the others end near to the cross and circle element. The scroll arms begin at the apex of two triangles with hatched corners; these triangles are not positioned at the top and bottom of a body panel, however, and one of the triangles is turned sideways. Incorporated into each of the larger hooked arm scroll motifs are kidney-shaped ovals outlined by hatched lines; two of the ovals are oriented vertically, and twice the ovals are oriented horizontally, and occur below one of the triangles with hatched corners.

TYPE: Wilder Engraved, var. unspecified

Wilder Engraved, var. unspecified bottle, Burial 28, Pot 10.

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Keywords

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

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