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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Tuck Carpenter

VESSEL NO.: Burial 2, Pot 11

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a slightly flaring neck

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and a rounded lip

CORE COLOR: A (fired and cooled in an oxidizing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown (2.5YR 5/4)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: red (2.5YR 5/6)

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.4 mm, neck

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 10.4

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 3.8

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 3.7; maximum body diameter is 7.3 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 3.9

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.16 liters

DECORATION: The vessel body has a curvilinear scroll with two arms that meet at a small excised circle; the scroll is repeated three times around the bottle. There are also expanded excised zones along each arm of the scrolls, opposite the central excised circle. Each arm of the scroll begins at a triangle with an excised negative oval within it. The exterior vessel surface is red-slipped.

TYPE: Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder

Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder bottle, Burial 2, Pot 11, Tuck Carpenter site.

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Keywords

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

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