VESSEL NO.: Burial 9, Vessel 36; 2003.08.1844

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog, hematite, and bone

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Inverted rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.4 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 6.8

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 11.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 13.4

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.2

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.45

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has a scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel. Each scroll is divided from the other by engraved brackets composed of four arcing lines. The elongated and triangular-shaped scroll fill zones are composed of a series of short curvilinear lines, with a short spur at one end. The end of the scroll hooks around that spur.

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

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified or Taylor Engraved

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified or Taylor Engraved carinated bowl, Frank Smith cemetery, Burial 9, Vessel 36.