VESSEL NO.: 2003.08.1291

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: Jar with four rim peaks

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark grayish-brown

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.6 mm; body, 5.2 mm; base, 6.5 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

HEIGHT (IN CM): N/A; rim height is 5.0 cm

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 20.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 19.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 8.0

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): N/A

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim is decorated with horizontal brushing marks. There are also two rows of punctations on the rim, one under the lip and the second mid-rim. Two appliqued nodes are under each of the four rim peaks.

The vessel body has four sets of large appliqued ridge and fillet alternating triangles, and at the center of each large triangle is an appliqued ridge diamond element; the inside of the diamond is filled with diagonal or cross-hatched incised lines. Between the sets of large triangles are diagonal incised lines and diagonal brushed marks, as well as smaller appliqued ridge triangles pendant from the rim-body juncture filled with diagonal incised lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE [IF KNOWN]: cf. Harleton Appliqued

Harleton Appliqued jar, Vessel No. 2003.08.1291.