SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Battle Place

CONTEXT INFORMATION: Obtained in 1928 from a grave in a Caddo cemetery.

ACCESSION NO.: 5425-665

VESSEL NO.: V-225

NON-PLASTICS: shell

VESSEL FORM: Bottle

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded lip

CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a low oxygen or reducing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.0 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the neck and body

HEIGHT (IN CM): 16.5

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 3.9

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.2; 11.3 cm wide at the widest part of the body

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.4

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.42 liters

DECORATION: There is a single horizontal engraved line at the neck-body juncture. Three cross-hatched engraved triangles are pendant from that engraved line. The main decorated motif on the body is a continuous scroll with linear tick marks and hooked arms, along with curvilinear ticked scroll lines both above and below the central hooked arm scroll.

TYPE: cf. Means Engraved

Means Engraved bottle (5425-665).