The carinated bowl (Fig. 12, B) has a flat, round base and a compound
rim which turns sharply inward at the shoulder to form a narrow, almost
vertical panel approximately 1.5 cm. high. Above this panel the rim
turns sharply outward to form a second panel extending to the lip. Four
equally spaced peaks rise from the upper panel of the rim. The bowl
stands 9.5 cm. high and measures 21.0 cm. wide between opposing rim
peaks. Both the exterior and the interior surfaces have been well
smoothed, and marks of the smoothing tool are clearly visible both
inside and outside the vessel.
The lower rim panel of the carinated bowl bears a stylized version of
the interlocking scroll design, featuring broad, deep, engraved lines
with small excised zones. The upper rim panel has elongated triangular
designs on the rim peak areas with broad, parallel, vertical, engraved
lines within the triangles. An almost identical bowl is pictured by Suhm
_et al._, (1954: Pl. 57, I) as an example of the type Ripley Engraved.
The engraved bottle (Fig. 12, C) has a broad, squat body and a tall neck
with expanded rim. Total height is 23.1 cm. The body is 12.8 cm. high by
18.3 cm. wide; the height of the neck is 10.3 cm., its minimal diameter
is 4.5 cm., and the oral diameter is 5.5 cm. An interlocking scroll
design is repeated twice (slightly asymmetrically) on the body, and some
of the engraved lines have small, pendant triangles which are hachured
or excised. There are also several cross hatched, triangular elements.
The exterior surface is dark gray in color and has been well smoothed.
The bottle has been identified as an example of type Ripley Engraved
(Suhm _et al._, 1954: 346 and Pl. 59).
In addition to the two vessels from Burial No. 1, examples of the
engraving technique appear on 107 sherds from the Harroun Site. The
paste of these sherds is fairly consistent in being fine grained and
relatively hard, and all appear to have sherd temper. The paste of the
engraved sherds also contains moderate amounts of sand, and 23 of them
have bone particles added as a supplementary tempering agent. Surfaces
are smoothed, both on the interior and exterior, and the exterior
surfaces of several sherds are highly polished. Fractures along coil
lines indicate that manufacture was by the coiling method. Wall
thickness ranges from 3 to 7 mm.
A big majority of the engraved sherds are from the rims of carinated
bowls with rounded, out-turned lips, but several are from the bodies of
bottles and one is from the rim of a jar. Most of the sherds are small,
having sections of from one to four engraved lines which are too
incomplete to reveal any distinctive design elements: consequently no
typological affiliations can be determined for them. There are some,
however, which can definitely be assigned to previously recognized
typological categories.
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