Figure A1.283, Piney Creek, 110, NTCC MH 1 486

SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Piney Creek

 

VESSEL NO.: 110

 

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog and hematite

 

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

 

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

 

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

 

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: yellowish-brown

 

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

 

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.4 mm

 

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

 

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

 

HEIGHT (IN CM): 7.5

 

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 18.4

 

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 18.0

 

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.7; circular and flat

 

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.83 liters

 

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll and circle motif repeated four times around the vessel; the circles are formed from multiple arcing lines. Each central circle has a smaller inner excised circle within it. The upper and lower scroll fill zones are open triangular elements (Figure A1.283).

 

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

 

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

 

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

 

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