VESSEL NO.: Burial 6, Vessel 42; 2003.08.1856

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown; fire clouds on the body and base; organic residue on the body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.7 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 9.6

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 21.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 21.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.3; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.24

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has three engraved nested diamond and one hatched bracket elements around the vessel. The nested diamond element has a smaller diamond within it; the element is also the central part of a horizontal scroll that ends in a hooked arm element. Above and below the scrolls are excised pendant triangles. The hatched bracket divides two of the nested diamond-horizontal scrolls.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: red pigment in the engraved lines

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Ripley Engraved, cf. var. McKinney

Ripley Engraved, cf. var. McKinney carinated bowl, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 6, Vessel 42.