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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Hyte

VESSEL NO.: 2003.08.1579, Burial 2

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a carinated body

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown; fire clouds on the neck, body, and base

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light reddish-brown; fire clouds on the neck, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.3 mm; body, 6.3 mm; base, 8.3 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 15.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 3.9

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 4.4

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: N/A

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.25

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The bottle body has vertical and hooked arm scrolls that originate in excised triangles and repeat four times on the vessel; there are negative ovals within the excised triangles. The scrolls have wider excised areas on either side where the hooked arms pass each other.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: red in the engraved lines

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Wilder Engraved, var. unspecified

Wilder Engraved, var. unspecified bottle sherds, Burial 2, Hyte site.

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Keywords

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

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