Pottery Vessels Database

Specific context

Cache

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

nubbin feet

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

29.50

Height (cm)

7.50

Weight (g)

1071.50

Comments

One of two similar vessels (with V# 082), the bowl has round incurving sides, a round base, and a direct round lip. Four nubbin feet were added after the vessel was formed and provide support (unlike V# 082). The nubbins are each 1.5 cm in height. Red (2.5YR 5/8) slip covers interior and exterior surfaces, and the paste is a yellowish red (7.5R 5/8). The bowl was the upper vessel in a lip-to-lip cache.

0771

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Sierra Variety bowl with nubbin feet from a cache.

082

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Cache

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

nubbin feet

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

upright

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

28.00

Height (cm)

7.00

Weight (g)

1220.50

Comments

The second of two similar vessels (with V# 081), it is a rounded bowl with a slightly incurved rim and four nubbin feet. The feet (0.8 in height) were added after the vessel was formed and do not support the body. Red (2.5YR 4/8) slip covers the interior and half of the vesselÕs exterior. The paste is gray (10YR 5/1). This bowl was the bottom vessel of a lip-to-lip cache.

0774

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Sierra Variety bowl with nubbin feet from a cache.

083

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

pit

Specific context

Pit

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

dish

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

16.00

Height (cm)

3.50

Weight (g)

140.50

Comments

Dish with outcurving walls and a direct rounded lip. Eroded red (10R 4/8) slip is present on the interior. The paste has a dark gray (2.5YR 4/0) core. The flat base measures 10 cm in diameter. Wall thickness is 0.3 cm, but widens to 0.7 at the rim.

0777

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Sierra Variety dish from a pit.

084

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 11-6

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

dish

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

50% - 74%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

26.50

Height (cm)

8.00

Weight (g)

1402.00

Comments

A dish with outcurving sides and a flared, everted rim. The flat base is 18.5 cm in diameter. The paste is finely textured with a 1-cm thick blackened core. Fire clouding occurs on the surface in variable colors: a very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dark gray (2.5Y 4/0), black (2.5Y 2/0), and red (2.5YR 5/6).

0779

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Sierra Variety dish.

085

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 11-6

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

50% - 74%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

22.00

Height (cm)

13.00

Weight (g)

972.20

Comments

Slightly flaring, this bowl has an everted rim and a rounded lip. It is slipped on the interior and exterior in red (2.5YR 4/8), but fire clouding occurs on the exterior. The paste is red (2.5YR 5/6) and has large white inclusions. The base has a diameter of 10 cm.

0782

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Sierra Variety bowl.

086

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 11-10

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Unspecified

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

50% - 74%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

18.00

Height (cm)

14.20

Weight (g)

2167.00

Comments

A bowl with incurved sides, slightly concave base (13.5 cm diameter), direct rim, and rounded lip. The vessel has pronounced circumferential angular ridges of 3 cm. There are two chamfers that begin at the rim. The first measures 2 cm in width, the second 3 cm. Slip is present on both the exterior and interior in a typical Sierra Red hue (2.5YR 4/8). Fire clouding occurs in gray (2.5YR 6/0) and light gray (5YR 7/1). The paste has a fine texture and a reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) color.

0113

Comments

Ceramic Type Collection: View of Sierra Red: Unspecified Variety.

087

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 11-10

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Unspecified

Form

jar

Secondary characteristics

duck effigy, spout

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

21.00

Height (cm)

20.00

Weight (g)

1325.50

Comments

A Sierra Red effigy jar with incurved-outcurved sides, a long neck, and an unsupported spout. The spout is located opposite the modeled duck head effigy. There are incised lines representing the wings of the duck on either side of the vessel. The height of the vessel neck is 7.5 cm and the rim is horizontal and slightly everted. The spout measures 13.5 cm in height and its orifice is 0.7 cm in diameter. The color of the surface falls within the Sierra Red color attributes (2.5YR 4/8). Fire clouding is either gray (2.5YR 6/0) or light gray (5YR 7/1). A reddish yellow (7.5YR 6/6) color characterizes the finely textured paste.

0783

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Unspecified Variety spouted vessel with duck effigy.

088

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Cache

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

cylinder

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

50% - 74%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

0.00

Height (cm)

0.00

Weight (g)

567.30

Comments

A cylinder form with slightly incurved-outcurved walls at both the base and top. No rim sherds were found. The flat base is 12 cm in diameter and the thickness of the wall is 0.5 cm. The slip is eroded and blackened. This vessel is so fragmentary, accurate dimensions are not possible. The height of the largest sherd is 17.5 cm.

0784

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Sierra Variety vessel from a cache.

090

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 12-9

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

dish

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

upright

Percentage of vessel

50% - 74%

Number of sherds

298

Rim diameter (cm)

40.00

Height (cm)

4.50

Weight (g)

900.50

Comments

Very friable and in numerous pieces, this dish has outcurved, rounded walls and a direct but rounded lip. It is slipped in red (2.5YR 4/8) on the interior and exterior. The paste is moderately coarse with a yellowish red (5YR 5/8) exterior and a very dark gray (5YR 3/0) core. The thickness of the base is 1.5 cm. This dish was found upright in the lap of a seated individual.

091

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 12-10

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

25.50

Height (cm)

8.90

Weight (g)

3154.00

Comments

DOA No: 33/200-5:15 A Sierra Red bowl with flared walls, an outcurved, everted rim, and a rounded lip. The bowl has a flat base of 18.3-cm diameter. Wall thickness is 1.2 cm. The paste is very fine. Fire clouding occurs on the surface of the vessel in the following colors: very pale brown (10YR 7/3), dark gray (2.5Y 4/0), black (2.5Y 2/0), and red (2.5YR 5/6).

0787

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Sierra Variety bowl.

092

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 12-12

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

37.00

Height (cm)

9.70

Weight (g)

706.00

Comments

Eroded and very fragmentary, this Sierra Red bowl flares from a flat base of 24-cm diameter. The paste and color are characteristic of Sierra Red. The vessel was found inverted over the head and torso of a seated, old adult female.

0619

Comments

Construction Phase 4, Vessel #092 in situ, associated with Burial 12-12, view to west.

093

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 12-16a

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

dish

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

upright

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

40.00

Height (cm)

6.50

Weight (g)

1928.10

Comments

A dish with flaring sides, an outflared, everted rim, and a rounded lip. The base is slightly incurved and measures 33 cm.

0789

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Sierra Variety dish from a cache-like context with human skeletal remains.

095

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Cache

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguacate Orange

Variety

Aguacate

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

4 solid conical feet

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

< 50%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

42.00

Height (cm)

0.00

Weight (g)

1780.90

Comments

An Aguacate Orange bowl with four solid conical feet. Each foot is 2 cm in height and 0.5-0.7 cm thick. The rim is thickened on the interior side.

0714

Comments

Cache deposit of a smashed Aguacate Orange tetrapodal vessel, Construction Phase 2b.

096

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 8-3a

Burial 8-3b

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguacate Orange

Variety

Aguacate

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

mammiform tetrapod

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

44.00

Height (cm)

13.50

Weight (g)

3052.70

Comments

The bowl has four mammiform feet and a rounded base. The feet are 7 cm in height with 3-cm diagonal slots. Wall thickness varies between 0.6 and 1.2 cm. The vessel was ritually broken at deposition and, when uncovered, contained fragments of human bone.

0078

Comments

Ceramic Type Collection: View of Aguacate Orange: Aguacate Variety

097

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 8-3a

Burial 8-3b

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Ixcanrio Orange Polychrome

Variety

Ixcanrio

Form

dish

Secondary characteristics

mammiform tetrapod

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

34.00

Height (cm)

12.20

Weight (g)

907.50

Comments

A tetrapod dish with flared sides, direct rim, and rounded lip. The mammiform feet are hollow with a flat nubbin base. The feet are approximately 9 cm in height and 8 cm in diameter, while the nubbins have a diameter of 2 cm. Each foot has 3 slots (4.5 cm long and 1 cm wide). The height of the dish itself is 4.5 cm at its maximum, with walls of 3.3 cm above the feet. The vessel and feet are slipped in red (2.5YR 5/8). The interior is decorated with three circumferential lines. The first line at the rim is red (10R 4/8) and measures 0.5 cm in width. The other two are narrower bands (0.3 cm) of very dark brown (10YR 2/2). The exterior is decorated with bands of the same color. Wide circumferential strips of red extend around the rim and base of the wall. Within these, thin brown lines demarcate a 2-cm wide band around the vessel. This band is broken up by vertical groupings of 5 thick brown lines which alternate with rectangles of unaltered slip.

098

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 8-3a

Burial 8-3b

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Ixcanrio Orange Polychrome

Variety

Ixcanrio

Form

dish

Secondary characteristics

mammiform tetrapod

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

34.00

Height (cm)

12.50

Weight (g)

1342.00

Comments

A highly eroded tetrapod dish with flared sides, a direct rim, a rounded lip, and mammiform feet. The hollow feet are 10 cm high and have a diameter of 8 cm. Each foot terminates in a flat nubbin base and has slots measuring 3x1.5 cm. The height of the dish is 3 cm at its maximum.

100

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 8-4

Burial 8-5

Burial 8-6

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguacate Orange

Variety

Aguacate

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

mammiform tetrapod with nubbins

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

304

Rim diameter (cm)

32.00

Height (cm)

0.00

Weight (g)

1684.30

Comments

An eroded tetrapod bowl with hollow mammiform feet terminated by nubbins. The height of the feet is 8.3 cm and the diameter is 7.1 cm. This is one of two vessels associated with Burials 8-4, 8-5, and 8-6.

101

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 8-5

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Eroded Polychrome

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

mammiform tetrapod, nubbin feet

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

14.00

Height (cm)

0.00

Weight (g)

619.90

Comments

Very friable and eroded, this fragmentary mammiform tetrapod has a flared shape, ovoid feet, a direct rim, and rounded lip. The feet are 8 cm in height and have 5 round vent holes. Each foot terminates in a slightly rounded nubbin tip. The base of the deep bowl is also slightly rounded. The vesselÕs exterior is decorated with an incised mat design that is terminated near the rim by two circumferential incisions that frame a zigzag pattern.

102

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 11-2

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Actuncan Orange Polychrome

Variety

Actuncan

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

ring base, basal flange

Kill hole?

Yes

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

100%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

32.00

Height (cm)

11.50

Weight (g)

2065.80

Comments

An Actuncan bowl with flared sides, basal flange, ring base, direct rim, and rounded lip. A polychrome design of two serpentine, well-endowed jaguars alternate with two large Kan crosses in a band above the flange. The basal flange itself (3.5 cm in width) is decorated with seven bisected Kan crosses, or portal motifs, arranged in alternating orientations. These motifs are red (10R 4/8) in color and are outlined in black (7.5R 2.5/0). The vessel was inverted over the skull of the individual.

0791

Comments

Vessel: Actuncan Orange Polychrome: Actuncan Variety flanged bowl with ring base and kill hole.

103

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 11-2

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguila Orange

Variety

Aguila

Form

jar

Secondary characteristics

ring base

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

< 50%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

9.00

Height (cm)

13.00

Weight (g)

503.00

Comments

Jar with a vertical neck, direct rim, rounded lip, and ring base. The height of the neck is 3.5 cm. The ring base is 1.5 cm high and has a diameter of 8 cm. The slip is red (2.5YR 4/8; 2.5YR 5/8) and was applied to the exterior and also to the interior of the neck. The medium-textured paste is a very pale brown (10YR 7/3) or grayish brown (10YR 5/2) with a 0.4-cm wide core.

0800

Comments

Vessel: Aguila Orange: Aguila Variety jar with ring base.

104

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 11-2

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Yaloche Cream Polychrome

Variety

Unspecified

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

16.20

Height (cm)

6.80

Weight (g)

435.60

Comments

Eroded and basically stripped to the paste, the vessel now appears as a cream colored bowl with incurved sides, a flat base, and a direct rim with a rounded lip. The color is light gray (10YR 7/2), light brown (10YR 6/3), and gray (10YR 6/1). The thickness of the walls is 0.5 cm.

0801

Comments

Vessel: Yaloche Cream Polychrome: Unspecified Variety bowl.

106

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 11-4

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguacate Orange

Variety

Aguacate

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

34.00

Height (cm)

8.20

Weight (g)

1285.30

Comments

A rounded bowl with a curved base. The rim is direct and the lip round. An interior incised groove, 3.7 cm below the lip, stylistically separates the rim from the body of the vessel. The interior is slipped and the paste is yellowish red (5YR 5/8) with black and white inclusions. The walls are 1 cm thick. This bowl was inverted over the head of an adult.

0803

Comments

Vessel: Aguacate Orange: Aguacate Variety bowl.

107

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 12-3

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguacate Orange

Variety

Aguacate

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Yes

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

36.00

Height (cm)

10.10

Weight (g)

1616.20

Comments

A bowl with rounded sides and a direct, slightly folded rim. The interior was slipped in red (2.5YR 5/8), but none existed on the exterior surface. Wall thickness ranges between 0.5-0.8 cm. The bowl was inverted and placed over the head of an extended, adult burial.

0806

Comments

Vessel: Aguacate Orange: Aguacate Variety bowl.

108

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 12-6

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguacate Orange

Variety

Aguacate

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

40.00

Height (cm)

8.40

Weight (g)

1409.80

Comments

A bowl with a rounded base and a shallow medial flange. The flange has a groove on the inside. The vessel is slipped in red (2.5YR 5/8) on the interior and has some fire clouding. Wall thickness is 0.5-0.7 cm and the rim is slightly folded. The vessel was found inverted over the head of an extended adult.

0808

Comments

Vessel: Aguacate Orange: Aguacate Variety bowl.

109

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 7-2

Ceramic complex

Early Nohalk'ax

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Early Nohalk'ax

Type

Actuncan Orange Polychrome

Variety

Actuncan

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

basal flange

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

100%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

33.50

Height (cm)

11.00

Weight (g)

1512.00

Comments

DOA No: 33/200-5:10 An Actuncan polychrome bowl with outcurved sides and a basal flange. It has a ring base, direct rim, and rounded lip. The ring base is 4 cm in height and 7.2 cm in diameter. Decoration of the vessel body consists of two red and black hummingbird designs alternating with two framed serpent head profiles on an orange base. The flange is 2.7 cm wide and is painted with stepped forms which, most likely, represent half of a portal motif. These are arranged in alternating orientations. Inside the vessel, there are red (1.4 cm wide) and black (0.3 cm) circumferential lines. The paste is pinkish gray and has a fine texture with some iron particles permeating the surface. There is some evidence for smoothing of the base. The vessel was inverted over the skull.

0809

Comments

Vessel: Actuncan Orange Polychrome: Actuncan Variety flanged bowl with ring base and kill hole.