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

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.

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.

The second of two identical vessels, this Sierra Red bowl is less complete than V# 073. It has outcurved sides, medial flange, everted rim, and rounded lip. It was placed as the lower half offering in a lip-to-lip cache.

An eroded Society Hall bowl with outcurving sides. The base diameter is 14 cm. This was the upright bottom vessel of the lower lip-to-lip cache deposit.

A bowl with flaring sides, a direct rim, and round lip. The basal diameter is 16 cm. The vessel was extremely eroded, so the red (2.5YR 5/8) color of the paste predominates. A very pale brown (10YR 7/3) color also occurs. The vessel was subject to carbonate accumulations. The thickness of the walls varies from 0.7 to 0.9 cm within which there is a 0.5 cm wide core of grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2). The bowl was the upright bottom vessel within the upper set of two lip-to-lip cache deposits.

Only partially complete, this bowl has outcurving sides, an everted rim, and a direct rounded lip. It has been slipped on the exterior and interior, and fire clouding is present. Wall thickness is 1 cm and the base diameter is 20 cm. It was found over the chest of the individual.

DOA No: 33/200-5:4 A well-preserved bowl with incurved-recurved sides, a collared neck, and a flat base. The basal diameter is 7.8 cm, which is the same measurement for the height of the neck. The vessel is a brownish yellow (10YR 7/4). The paste color is a yellowish red (5YR 5/6) and has a fine texture with probable calcite and iron particles. This vessel belongs to the basal Late KÕatabcheÕkÕax construction phase in Operation 7, but is a type that doesnÕt become popular until the Early NohalkÕax. The vessel represents an example of precocious craftsmanship and was, most likely, an import to KÕaxob.