Title
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Creation Date
2018
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns
VESSEL NO.: Burial 8, Pot 2
NON-PLASTICS: grog and hematite
VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a flaring neck
RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and a rounded lip
CORE COLOR: A (fired and cooled in an oxidizing environment)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light yellowish-brown (10YR 6/4)
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light yellowish-brown (10YR 6/4)
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 7.2 mm, neck
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed
HEIGHT (IN CM): 20.0
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.6
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.4; 13.0 cm maximum body diameter
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 8.8
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.70 liters
DECORATION: There are three horizontal engraved lines at the top of the vessel body. Below these lines are two curvilinear scrolls, repeated four times around the vessel, whose arms circle each other, and then meet at a small central hatched circle. The scroll arms have widened excised or hatched areas opposite the central hatched circle. Each scroll arm begins at the apex of upper and lower triangular elements.
TYPE: Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder
Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder bottle, Burial 8, Pot 2.
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Recommended Citation
Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "41CP12, Burial 8, Pot 2" (2018). Index of Texas Archaeology: Wilder Engraved. 3.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-wilderengraved/3
Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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