SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: George T. Wright Collection, Lamar County, Texas. Wright’s notebook indicates this vessel came from a burial at the Sanders site (41LR2), near but not from either of the two mounds at the site (Jackson et al. 2000; Krieger 1946).

VESSEL NO.: GTW-535 [TX 148/1], Burial Lamar

VESSEL FORM: Bowl with four lip appliqued lugs

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Inverted rim and rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown; fire clouds on the body

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 7.6 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 10.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 12.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 12.3

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.2 cm, circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.6

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): the rim panel has four sets of vertical and diagonal engraved lines as well as a single horizontal engraved line at the base of the rim panel. The appliqued lugs divide the engraved sets.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Sanders Engraved (see Suhm and Jelks 1962:137 and Plate 69)

Sanders Engraved bowl, GTW-535.