SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Johns

VESSEL NO.: Burial 14, Pot 6

NON-PLASTICS: grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

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

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

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

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light yellowish-brown (10YR 6/4); fire clouding on the rim and body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.7 mm, rim; 8.8 mm, body

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 13.3

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 29.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 22.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 8.5

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 3.5 liters

DECORATION: The rim has an engraved alternate nested triangle motif repeated four times around the vessel. Within the nested triangle is an excised negative oval. Opposite the triangle is a scroll with a hooked arm element as well as excised ovals and panels within a scroll fill zone. Each nested triangle is divided by excised brackets that do not extend completely from the carination to the rim. A white kaolin clay pigment has also been rubbed in the engraved lines.

TYPE: cf. Ripley Engraved, var. Williams

Ripley Engraved, var. Williams carinated bowl, Burial 14, Pot 6.