SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: H. R. Taylor

VESSEL NO.: 88, Burial A-9

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

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

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

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

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the body and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 6.0 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 6.5

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 13.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 12.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.0 cm, circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.5

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has single upper and lower horizontal engraved lines with excised pendant triangles. The central elements include diamonds (n=2) with central excised dots and circles (n=2) with central excised dots. The central horizontal engraved line extending out from the diamond elements do not end in excised brackets, but end in excised triangles.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Ripley Engraved, var. McKinney carinated bowl (No. 88) in Burial A-9 at the H. R. Taylor site.