VESSEL NO.: Burial 3, Vessel 23; 2003.08.565

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

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: reddish-brown; fire cloud on the base

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

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 7.0 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 12.7

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 27.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 24.5

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.5; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 2.1

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel; each scroll ends in upper and lower hooked arms. The scrolls are divided by excised brackets with two negative oval elements. The upper and lower scroll fill zones include excised triangles and brackets as well as a negative oval with a single central excised dot.

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

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

Ripley Engraved, cf. var. Gandy carinated bowl, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 3, Vessel 23.