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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns

VESSEL NO.: Burial 6, Pot 2

NON-PLASTICS: grog; sandy paste

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a straight to flaring neck near the lip

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and a rounded lip

CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray (10YR 3/1)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray (10YR 3/1); fire clouding on the body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.1 mm, neck

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the upper neck

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 24.5

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 5.1

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.9; 16.0 cm maximum body diameter

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.5

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.93 liters

DECORATION: The top of the vessel body has three horizontal engraved lines; the lowermost line has alternating small hatched pendant triangles and cross-hatched pendant rectangles. The body has curvilinear scrolls whose arms curve around each other and meet at a small central excised circle. The upper and lower arms of the scrolls begin at the apex of upper and lower triangular elements. There are widened excised areas on each arm of the scroll, opposite the central excised circle.

TYPE: Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder

Wilder Engraved, var. Wilder bottle, Burial 6, Pot 2.

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Keywords

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

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