SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Tuck Carpenter
VESSEL NO.: Burial 12, Pot 5
NON-PLASTICS: grog and bone
VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl
RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip
CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray (10YR 3/1)
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray (10YR 3/1)
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.3 mm, rim
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
HEIGHT (IN CM): 7.0
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 15.2
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 12.6
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.7
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.64 liters
DECORATION: The rim panel has an engraved scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel. The scrolls are divided by excised and cross-hatched engraved brackets, while the scroll fill zones have negative ovals and rectangles with excised triangles and tick marks, or are cross-hatched. There is an interior engraved line at the vessel carination.
TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified, but resembles var. Gandy
Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified carinated bowl, Burial 12, Pot 5, Tuck Carpenter site.
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