VESSEL NO.: 3-21-85

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown; fire clouds on the base; organic residue on the rim

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 5.8 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 17.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 16.5

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.8; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.8

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim has a continuous negative slanting scroll motif outlined by seven sets of upper and lower scroll fill zones. These fill zones are filled with a series of short vertical engraved lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: red in engraved lines

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified carinated bowl.