Vessel 174 (2003.08.221)

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone (<5% of the inclusions)

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

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: yellowish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouding on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 4.6 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 14.4

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 13.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 5.2

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.71

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll and circle motif repeated three times around the vessel. Each of the central circle elements has a smaller circle inside it that has four pendant triangles on it, and one also has an even smaller central excised dot. The upper and lower scroll dividers—repeated three times—are triangular-shaped, with a sideways negative S-shaped element surrounded by hatched and excised lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: white pigment in engraved lines

TYPE [IF KNOWN]: Ripley Engraved, var. Galt

Ripley Engraved, var. Galt carinated bowl, Vessel 174, Burial 32.