VESSEL NO.: Burial 7, Vessel 23; 2003.08.267

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

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 clouding on rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.9 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 7.5

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 14.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 14.7

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.5; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.66

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has a continuous scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel. The central scroll lines have small excised tick marks. The upper and lower scroll zones have alternating curvilinear hatched zones and curvilinear engraved lines, and there is a hooked arm element at the beginning of each scroll fill zone; underneath the hooked arm on each scroll fill zone is a single small excised triangle.

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

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Ripley Engraved, cf. var. Carpenter carinated bowl, Frank Smith cemetery, Burial 7, Vessel 23.