VESSEL NO.: Burial 8, Vessel 52; 2003.08.978

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

VESSEL FORM: Compound bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 9.2 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 22.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 33.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 30.2

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 9.5; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 5.8

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The upper rim panel has two widely-spaced horizontal engraved lines. The lower rim panel has two sets of alternate nested triangles, separated from each other by sets of three vertical engraved lines. Each alternate nested triangle has a small circle and dot element within the smallest of the triangles within the nested et of triangles.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Ripley Engraved, var. Williams compound bowl, Enis Smith cemetery, Burial 8, Vessel 52.