SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Richard Patton

VESSEL NO.: 41AN26-24

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and hematite

VESSEL FORM: Globular Bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: pale brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: light brown; fire clouds

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.5 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the rim and smoothed on the body

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the rim and body

HEIGHT (IN CM): 10.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 10.2

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 10.3

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.5; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.8

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel is defined by single upper and lower horizontal engraved lines with either downward- or upward-pointing excised tick marks. The panel is divided by six sets of vertical engraved lines. The vessel body has three sets of concentric circles and semi-circles, with each line having an outward-facing tick mark. The sets of concentric circles and semi-circles are divided at their upper end by three large open pendant triangles as well as a single curvilinear line that extends towards the vessel base from its beginning at the apex of the pendant triangle elements. There are inward-pointing tick marks on two sides of the triangles, and the curvilinear line has outward-pointing excised tick marks.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: white pigment in the engraved lines

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Patton Engraved, var. Freeman

Patton Engraved, var. Freeman globular bowl from the Richard Patton site.