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2018

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: H. R. Taylor

VESSEL NO.: 227, Burial A-18

VESSEL FORM: Bottle

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

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

CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown; fire clouds on the body

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.8 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 16.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 4.6; maximum body diameter: 13.5 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.0 cm, circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.5

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel body has four sets of engraved scrolls whose arms circular around each other and meet at the center of the scrolls. Unlike other examples of Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder, there is no circle element at the center where the two scrolls meet; the scroll arm is widened in one excised zone area. The scroll arms begin at upper and lower pendant triangles with hatched or cross-hatched zones at the apex of the triangle elements, and there is a narrow cross-hatched zone between the upper pendant triangles.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder

Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder bottle (No. 227) in Burial A-18 at the H. R. Taylor site.

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Keywords

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

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