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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: H. R. Taylor

VESSEL NO.: 509, Burial A-44

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a carinated body

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown

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

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.7 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 17.1

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 6.4; maximum body diameter: 13.6 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.0 cm, circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.4

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel body has two upper and lower horizontal engraved lines and a continuous panel of three different but related engraved elements. Each of the three elements has curvilinear and arcing engraved scrolls that either meet at a central excised circle; meet at an open circle; or hook around each other but do not meet. The scrolls begin at the apex of large pendant triangles with either hatched or excised corners, or are open pendant triangles.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Wilder Engraved, var. unspecified bottle (No. 509) in Burial A-44 at the H. R. Taylor site.

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Keywords

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

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