SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Lester Bros. Place

CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a burial in a cemetery, 1929.

ACCESSION NO.: 5425-945

VESSEL NO.: V-364

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Bowl

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 grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark grayish-brown

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 4.3 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the body and burnished on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the rim and body

HEIGHT (IN CM): 9.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 13.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 9.8

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.3

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.47 liters

DECORATION: The rim has four horizontal but opposed rows of hatched engraved pendant triangles; the lowermost horizontal engraved line has triangular-shaped tick marks. The vessel body has engraved scrolls with four separate hooked arm elements; four large hatched pendant triangles serve as fill background for the hooked arm scrolls. A white pigment had been rubbed into the engraved lines, and the lip is carefully notched.

TYPE: cf. Taylor Engraved

Taylor Engraved bowl (5425-945).