VESSEL NO.: Burial 4, Vessel 28; 2003.08.323

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: dark yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 9.4 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 10.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 22.4

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 20.6

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.9; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.34

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved slanted scroll motif, repeated four times around the vessel, that ends in upper and lower hooked arm elements. The scrolls are divided by vertical brackets with horizontal hatched or cross-hatched lines along its center. The scroll fill zones have vertical and curvilinear engraved lines, negative ovals, and excised triangles.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Taylor Engraved

Taylor Engraved carinated bowl, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 4, Vessel 28.