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2018

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: H. R. Taylor

VESSEL NO.: 873, Herbert Whitlow Collection

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: very dark gray

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray; fire clouds on the body

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 5.3 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 16.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 4.6; maximum body diameter: 12.0 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.2 cm, circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.5

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel body has three upper horizontal engraved lines and one horizontal engraved line above the base. Between these lines are four sets of curvilinear interlocking engraved scrolls that meet at a large hatched circle element. Portions of the scrolls on either side of the hatched circle are thickened by the addition of curvilinear hatched areas. The scrolls originate from the apex of large upper and lower pendant triangles with either hatched or excised corners.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder bottle (No. 873) in the Whitlow collection from the H. R. Taylor site.

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Keywords

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

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