VESSEL NO.: Burial 11, Vessel 87; 2003.08.1820

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.5

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 15.8

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 16.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.8

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.81

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved horizontal and curvilinear scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel. The scroll are divided by vertical engraved brackets. Above and below each of the scrolls are single rows of small excised pendant triangles.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Ripley Engraved, cf. var. Gandy carinated bowl, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 11, Vessel 87.