SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Tuck Carpenter

VESSEL NO.: Burial 21, Pot 12

NON-PLASTICS: grog and bone

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: pale brown (10YR 6/3)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: pale brown (10YR 6/3); fire clouding on the body and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.1 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 5.3

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 11.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.8

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.37 liters

DECORATION: The rim panel has four sets of nested engraved triangle motifs around the vessel. Each set includes a excised triangle with a negative oval within it, as well as a large triangle nested above it; the apex of both points towards the vessel rim. There are also two small excised triangles with negative ovals pendant from the rim, and on either side of the larger nested triangle element. There are also interior engraved lines at the carination and around the base.

TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified, but cf. var. Williams

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified carinated bowl, Burial 21, Pot 12, Tuck Carpenter site.