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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns

VESSEL NO.: Burial 17, Pot 5

NON-PLASTICS: grog, hematite, and bone

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a flaring neck and a globular body

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and a rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black (10YR 2/1)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light yellowish-brown (10YR 6/4); fire clouding on the neck and body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.2 mm, neck

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 19.4

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.9

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.4; 15.3 cm is the maximum body diameter

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 8.2

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.64 liters

DECORATION: The body of the vessel has two horizontal engraved lines below the neck as well as two horizontal engraved lines above the base. Between these lines are two arms (upper and lower) of a curvilinear scroll motif that wrap around each other and meet at a small hatched circle. The motif is repeated four times around the body. There are broadened areas of the scroll arms that are filled with cross-hatching. The arms of the scrolls begin at the apex of triangular elements, one or more corners of which are cross-hatched.

TYPE: Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder

Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder bottle, Burial 17, Pot 5.

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Keywords

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

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