VESSEL NO.: Burial 1, Vessel 10; 2003.08.1427

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

VESSEL FORM: Compound 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: yellowish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim panels

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 7.0 mm; body, 6.8 mm; base, 11.9 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): ca. 22.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 34.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 33.8

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.0; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 6.0

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The upper rim panel has two widely-spaced horizontal engraved lines; the upper line has a row of excised pendant triangles or tick marks. The lower rim panel has an engraved continuous scroll motif probably repeated four times around the vessel. The upper and lower scroll fill zones are elongated triangular areas with negative ovals and excised corners; one of the upper zone negative ovals has a central dot within it.

There is also a single horizontal engraved line on the interior vessel surface at the carination.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Ripley Engraved, var. Carpenter compound bowl sherds, Herbert Taft cemetery, Burial 1, Vessel 10.