VESSEL NO.: 2003.08.1048

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: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body; organic residue on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the body; thick organic residue on the rim and body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.2 mm; body, 6.5 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 11.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 27.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 27.1

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.2; flat and circular base

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.8

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel. The scrolls are divided by open brackets. Above and below each of the scrolls are single rows of excised pendant triangles. There is a single horizontal engraved line at the interior carination.

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, Henry Williams cemetery, Burial 22, Vessel 2003.08.1048.