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an added or thickened upper rim strip which may be coextensive 

 with a lip bearing closely spaced perpendicular notches or incisions. 

 The first two sherds have small, rounded, closely spaced, horizontally 

 projecting nodes. These are either coextensive with the lip or 

 placed immediately below the lip on the rim. Only one sherd that 

 is in the Ceramic Repository collection has a horizontally projecting 

 rim-lip lug. 



Wide-Mouth Jars With Rim Bosses 



The sherds of this type are characterized by the presence along 

 the rim of a continuous series of closely spaced bosses or nodes which 

 project horizontally from the rim. The variation in shape and ap- 

 pearance of the nodes is well illustrated in the lower two rows of 

 plate 76, a. The shape of the vessel was probably that of an open- 

 mouth jar. Twenty-seven out of the 32 sherds of this type which 

 have been examined in detail could be scratched on the outer sur- 

 face by the fingernail and hence have a hardness of 2-2.5. The 

 texture is medium fine and, as can be seen from the photograph, 

 the surface finish of the rim has been smoothed while the shoulder 

 at least was tooled with a cord-wrapped paddle. Most of the sherds 

 that have smoothed rims were subjected to the tooling up to the lip 

 and the rim was then smoothed. The rim itself is usually straight 

 but is occasionally slightly flaring. The lip is rounded, or nar- 

 rowed and rounded, in most cases. The exterior surface color is 

 predominantly light gray or a light tan, although darker grays are 

 not atypical. The paste is gray. 



The lip ranges from 0.25 cm to 1 cm in thickness, with almost 

 90 percent being between 0.4 cm and 0.7 cm. The rim ranges from 

 0.4 cm to 1.2 cm with 85 percent of the specimens having a thickness 

 of 0.6 cm to 0.9 cm. The remaining three columns of measurements 

 on Chart XV give the vertical height of the node strip, the length 

 of three of the nodes, and the width from the tip of the node to 

 the interior surface of the rim. On at least 75 percent of the sherds 

 the height is between 1.5 cm and 2.5 cm; the length of three nodes 

 between 3 cm and 5 cm; and the width between 1.4 cm and 1.8 cm. 

 In the case of a few sherds the clay used to form the nodes had been 

 added as an additional rim strip, but in the majority this could not 

 be seen and the nodes were probably formed directly from the body 

 clay. This decorated area is commonly located 0.5 cm to 1 cm below 

 the lip and is rarely coextensive with it. 



Jar- Shape A 



The identifying character of this type of jar is a straight or 

 slightly flaring rim, the upper segment of which is rather sharply 



