VESSEL NO.: Burial 1, Vessel 6; 2003.08.470

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and hematite; sandy paste

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: dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 4.9 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 7.8

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 15.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 15.3

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.4; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.73

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel is decorated with a horizontal scroll motif that is repeated four times around the vessel. Each scroll ends in upper and lower excised brackets, and the scrolls themselves are divided from each other by open brackets. Above and below each scroll motif are small pendant triangles or tick marks.

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, Herbert Taft cemetery, Burial 1, Vessel 6.