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the vessels a light-reflecting quality that they lacked before. Two 

 of them are complete, and both have the following dimensions : height, 

 68 mm. ; maximum diameter, 87 mm. ; orifice at inner lip, 75 mm. ; neck 

 diameter, 74 mm. The size of the incomplete specimen would be much 

 the same. The surfaces are irregularly smoothed, and the shoul- 

 ders are steeply sloping. Two of them have outflaring rims (pi. 6, /) 

 and the other has a constricted neck and a nearly vertical rim (pi. 6, 

 g). Each of the pots contains slightly more than a quarter of a pint 

 of water when filled to the neck. 



A vessel fragment indicating an orifice of 56 mm., with an outflar- 

 ing rim 8 mm. high, has a steeply sloping and irregularly smoothed 

 shoulder. Another fragmentary miniature is decorated with incised 

 lines (fig. 2, d). This vessel has an estimated orifice diameter of 80 

 mm., with an outflaring rim 11 mm. high. The surface is irregularly 

 smoothed. Fragments of two other vessels have outflaring rims. 

 One of them shows the scar of a handle that was welded to the lip and 

 riveted to the upper shoulder. Bowls may be indicated by three small 

 sherds, two of which have indented lips. 



BODY SHERDS 



The majority of sherds from the site are simple-stamped or 

 smoothed. Some 514 sherds are classed as simple-stamped and bear 

 the characteristic grooves resulting from the malleating of the moist 

 clay with a grooved paddle. The 845 smooth sherds are irregularly 

 smoothed, and only a few of them might be classed as polished. The 

 polished sherds have a low light-reflecting surface. Many of the 

 smoothed sherds show irregularities which suggest that the surface 

 was originally simple-stamped. 



The 54 decorated body sherds are incised or trailed on the shoulder, 

 which is usually smooth but which may reveal partially obliterated 

 traces of vertical simple-stamps. The decoration may consist of either 

 fine line incising or deep trailing, sometimes in combination with 

 punctates. The width of the lines varies from 0.5 to 6.0 mm., and cross 

 sections are either V-shaped or U-shaped. One of the more common 

 designs consists of alternating "bear tracks" and chevrons (fig. 1, 

 a-hj d). In only one instance do the "tracks" have more than five 

 "digits" (fig. 1, c). A design termed the "drooping corn stalk" is 

 incised on shoulders that are covered with horizontally incised lines 

 and a wavy or zigzag lower border. Oblique incised lines and punc- 

 tates also occur on the same background (fig. 1, f-g) . Other fragmen- 

 tary designs consist of oblique, vertical, and horizontal lines in several 

 combinations (fig. 1, h', fig. 2, h-c). Broad-trailed concentric circles 

 occur on the shoulder of one large rim sherd, and on one body sherd. 



