SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: H. R. Taylor

VESSEL NO.: 229, Burial A-19

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with collar at the bottom of the neck

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and bone

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted 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: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 5.8 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 15.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.1

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 4.4; maximum body diameter: 11.5 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.2 cm, circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.4

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel body has four sets of engraved scrolls whose arms circular around each other but do not meet at the center of the scrolls. The scroll arm is widened in one excised zone area. The scroll arms begin at upper and lower pendant triangles with hatched zones at the corners, and there is a narrow zone with hatched lines between the upper pendant triangles.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Wilder Engraved, var. unspecified

Wilder Engraved, var. unspecified bottle (No. 229) in Burial A-19 at the H. R. Taylor site.