SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Tuck Carpenter

VESSEL NO.: Burial 36, Pot 5

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

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

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark gray (10YR 3/1)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown (5YR 5/4); fire clouding on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.7 mm, body; 9.3 mm, base

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 19.5

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 28.8

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): N/A

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 8.0

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 5.0 liters

DECORATION: The rim has an engraved horizontal scroll motif repeated four times on the vessel. The scrolls are divided by excised brackets. The scroll fill zones have either a single excised triangle or an excised negative oval with a central dash or spur in it (cf. Thurmond 1990). A white clay pigment has also been rubbed in the engraved lines.

TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified carinated bowl, Burial 36, Pot 5, Tuck Carpenter site.