Figure A1.120, Greasy Creek, 243, NTCC MH 2 209

SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Greasy Creek (Shelby Mound, 41CP71)

 

VESSEL NO.: 243

 

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

 

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl, miniature

 

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a flat, exterior folded lip; Redwine mode (Walters 2010)

 

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

 

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

 

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

 

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.3 mm

 

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

 

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

 

HEIGHT (IN CM): 3.6

 

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 10.2

 

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 8.6

 

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.0; circular and rounded

 

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.22 liters

 

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll and circle motif that is repeated three times on the vessel. The central circle element has an inner excised circle (Figure A1.120). The scrolls only have accompanying upper scroll fill zones that include vertical engraved lines; the central scroll line runs from the top of each circle to the bottom of the rim, and does not connect the central circles.

 

There is also a single horizontal engraved line on the interior vessel surface at the carination.

 

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

 

TYPE AND VARIETY [IF KNOWN]: Ripley Engraved, cf. var. Galt

 

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