SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Hatchel (41BW3)

VESSEL NO.: 6-3-206; Zone K in the platform mound

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded lip

CORE COLOR: A (fired and cooled in an oxidizing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the body

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.7 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the body

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.2

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 15.7

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 15.7

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.9 cm; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.77

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim is decorated with three horizontal incised lines as well as a slanting incised lines (slanting scroll line) around an incised circle motif repeated four times around the vessel. The incised circle element is filled with rows of tool punctations. Above and below the slanting scroll lines are pendant triangle elements filled with diagonal and curvilinear incised lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Crockett Curvilinear Incised

Crockett Curvilinear Incised (6-3-206) carinated bowl in Zone K in the platform mound at the Hatchel site: photograph, courtesy of TARL.