Title

41UR317, Burial 3, Vessel 21, 2003.08.419

Creator

Timothy K. Perttula, Heritage Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University.Follow
Robert Z. Selden Jr., Heritage Research Center, Stephen F. Austin State University.Follow

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Creation Date

2019

Description

VESSEL NO.: Burial 3, Vessel 21; 2003.08.419

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

VESSEL FORM: Bottle

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

CORE COLOR: N/A

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: N/A

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown (on the bottle neck) to dark grayish-brown

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): N/A

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 18.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 3.9

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 4.4; maximum body diameter of 13.7 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.5; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.54

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The upper vessel body has two widely-spaced horizontal engraved lines above a scroll motif that is repeated four times around the vessel. The scrolls have upper and lower arms that encircle each other, and end in hooked arms. As the two arms of the scroll pass the hooked arm area, the scrolls are widened with cross-hatching. The arms of the scrolls originate from the apex of upper and lower triangles. These triangles have excised corners, and the upper triangles have single inner tick marks or small excised pendant triangles.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Wilder Engraved, var. unspecified bottle, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 3, Vessel 21.

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Recommended Citation

Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. Jr., "41UR317, Burial 3, Vessel 21, 2003.08.419" (2019). Index of Texas Archaeology: Wilder Engraved. 59.
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita-wilderengraved/59