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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Tuck Carpenter

VESSEL NO.: Burial 19, Pot 11

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a straight to flaring neck and four body peaks

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: pale brown (10YR 6/3)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown (10YR 5/2); fire clouding on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 4.0 mm, neck

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed at the top of the neck

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 19.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.3; maximum body diameter is 14.5 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.0

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.69 liters

DECORATION: The vessel body has a curvilinear engraved scroll motif repeated four times whose two arms curve around each other and meet at a central and open engraved circle; in this case, the central engraved circle surrounds each of the four body peaks. The scrolls have widened areas on each arm that are filled with hatched lines. The upper and lower scroll arms begin at the apex of upper and lower triangular elements with cross-hatched corners. A red clay pigment has been rubbed in the engraved lines.

TYPE: Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder

Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder bottle, Burial 19, Pot 11, Tuck Carpenter site.

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Keywords

American Southwest, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology

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