Figure A1.104, Greasy Creek, 172, NTCC MH 1 917

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

 

VESSEL NO.: 172

 

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

 

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

 

RIM AND LIP FORM: Inverted rim and a rounded lip

 

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

 

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: grayish-brown

 

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

 

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 5.2 mm

 

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

 

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

 

HEIGHT (IN CM): 11.4

 

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 19.2

 

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 20.0

 

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 7.6; circular and rounded

 

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.3 liters

 

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved scroll motif repeated four times around the vessel. The scrolls are divided by vertical brackets with inner spurs. Above and below each of the scrolls are single rows of small excised pendant triangles (Figure A1.104).

 

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

 

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

 

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