VESSEL NO.: Burial 9, Vessel 65; 2003.08.1808

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

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: grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown with fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.4 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.6

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 18.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 17.3

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.0; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.95

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel features alternating circle in circle and diamond within diamond elements that are each repeated two times. The diamond within diamond element is the central feature in a horizontal scroll motif that is also repeated four times; the scrolls do not connect with the circle and circle elements. Above and below each of the scrolls are small excised pendant triangles.

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

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: white pigment in engraved lines on exterior surface

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

Ripley Engraved, var. McKinney carinated bowl, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 9, Vessel 65.