SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: G. W. Rumsey

VESSEL NO.: 49

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

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

CORE COLOR: H (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown (10YR 5/3); fire clouding

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark grayish-brown (10YR 3/2)

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 4.9 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 17.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 15.5

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.5

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.82 liters

DECORATION: The rim has four sets of scrolls and upper and lower engraved/excised pendant triangles, as seen on Ripley Engraved, var. McKinney vessels. The scrolls are divided by S-shaped brackets (cf. Thurmond 1990). A red clay pigment has been rubbed in the engraved lines.

TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified carinated bowl, Rumsey site, Vessel 49.