Pottery Vessels Database

Specific context

Burial 7-2

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Actuncan Orange Polychrome

Variety

Actuncan

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

tetrapod

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

upright

Percentage of vessel

100%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

17.50

Height (cm)

11.70

Weight (g)

773.00

Comments

The tetrapod bowl has hollow conical feet, slightly incurved sides, a direct rim, and rounded lip. The feet are 7.3 cm in height and are modeled and painted to represent peccary heads. The orange eyes of the peccary are outlined in red and have a very dark brown line separating them. The tips of the feet are modeled to form the mouth and were probably painted in red. The exterior rim of the vessel is decorated with a red (10R 4/8) circumferential band 0.8-0.9 cm wide. The middle register consists of black (7.5R 2.5/0) rectangles alternating with red (10R 4/8) ones. All rectangles measure 3 cm high, but the three black ones are shorter in length (averaging 7 cm) than the three red panels (averaging 9 cm). Beneath this design, a very dark brown (10YR 2/2) line and a red (10R 4/8) 0.6-cm wide circumferential band encircle the vessel near the incurved base. The interior of the bowl has a highly glossy reddish yellow (5YR 6/8) surface. The interior rim is a continuation of the external decoration with a red (10R 4/8) circumferential band that is 1 cm wide and bordered by a very dark brown (10YR 2/2) line of 0.2 cm width. The paste of the vessel has a fine texture and may be ash tempered.

0814

Comments

Vessel: Actuncan Orange Polychrome: Actuncan Variety with tetrapodal feet shaped and painted as peccary heads.

111

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Cache

Specific context

Cache

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

San Martin Variegated Brown

Variety

San Martin

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

upright

Percentage of vessel

50% - 74%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

15.00

Height (cm)

13.00

Weight (g)

1003.00

Comments

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.

0818

Comments

Vessel: San Martin Variegated Brown: San Martin Variety bowl with collared neck from a cache.

112

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

Ixcanrio Orange Polychrome

Variety

Ixcanrio

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

tetrapod, polychrome

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

50% - 74%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

19.00

Height (cm)

11.50

Weight (g)

666.70

Comments

A very eroded polychrome tetrapod bowl with a painted geometric pattern. The bowl has a rounded base with a 15 cm basal diameter, slanted walls, and a direct rim with a rounded lip. The wall height of the bowl is 5.5 cm and each foot is 6.7 high. The feet have 2 slits (3-cm long) and a 1-cm round hole, then terminate in nubbins. Decoration is on the exterior of the vessel and consists of an orange circumferential line, double brown lines and brown slip around the rim. The tetrapod feet are slipped on the outside. One of two vessels associated with Burials 8-4, 8-5, and 8-6.

0820

Comments

Vessel: Ixcanrio Orange Polychrome: Ixcanrio Variety bowl with tetrapodal mammiform feet.

113

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 12-2

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Actuncan Orange Polychrome

Variety

Actuncan

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

ring base

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

18.00

Height (cm)

8.90

Weight (g)

503.00

Comments

An Actuncan polychrome bowl that remains whole, though cracks have almost fissured through the vessel. The bowl has round sides, a ring base, and a direct rim with a rounded lip. The base has a diameter of 12 cm. Overall, the interior and exterior of the vessel is slipped in a light red (2.5YR 6/8) color, which provides the base coat. Decoration consists of a circumferential band near the rim in a weak red (10R 5/4) color: 0.8-cm wide on the interior, 1.5-cm on the exterior. Motifs appear as angular, serpentine scroll designs in the same color. The bowl was inverted over the skull.

0821

Comments

Vessel: Actuncan Orange Polychrome: Actuncan Variety bowl with ring base, kill hole, and serpent design.

114

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 12-4

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguacate Orange

Variety

Aguacate

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

flange

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

135

Rim diameter (cm)

40.00

Height (cm)

8.00

Weight (g)

1630.00

Comments

A very eroded and friable bowl with a rounded base, small flange, outflaring rim, and direct rounded lip. The thickness of the base is 0.68 cm. The slip is a light red (2.5YR 6/8) that coats a paste with small white inclusions and a very dark gray (2.5YR 3/0) core. The bowl was inverted over the head of an extended adult. This vessel was an heirloom Terminal KÕatabcheÕkÕax piece found in an Early NohalkÕax context.

115

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Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 13-3a

Burial 13-3b

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Balanza Black

Variety

Unspecified

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

flange

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

26.00

Height (cm)

9.10

Weight (g)

1057.90

Comments

A flanged bowl with a rounded base and eroded slip. The vessel has a dull dark gray (10YR 3/1) wash on the interior and exterior. The paste is olive brown (2.5Y 4/3) with white inclusions. Wall thickness is 0.4-0.7 cm.

0210

Comments

Vessel: Basal view of Balanza Black: Unspecified Variety bowl. V# 115

116

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 13-3a

Burial 13-3b

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Dos Arroyos Orange Polychrome

Variety

Dos Arroyos

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

flange, polychrome

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

50% - 74%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

31.00

Height (cm)

8.40

Weight (g)

1512.00

Comments

A flanged bowl with a rounded base, flared sides, a direct rim, and rounded lip. The thickness of the walls is 0.5 cm. The paste has a fine texture and finely crushed calcite shows through the surface. The color of the paste is yellowish red (5YR 5/6). These surfaces are smoothed and covered with a yellowish red (5YR 7/8) slip color. The base of the vessel is unslipped and bears evidence of smoothing marks. The decoration on the exterior consists of red (2.5YR 5/8) or yellowish red (5YR 7/8) bands near the rim. Below these are red (10R 4/3) bands of 1.5 cm width. Vertical lines run from these horizontal bands down to the flange in a weak red (10R 4/3) color. On the flange, red (7.5R 4/8) dots were painted and encircled by "U"-shaped red (10R 4/3) motifs. On the interior, there is a red (7.5R 4/8) band near the rim that measures 1.5 cm in width. A second band in a weak red (10R 4/3) color runs beneath the first and is 0.5 cm in width. Fugitive interior paint seems to depict a seated figure wearing some sort of bird mask or headdress. Rays swirling around the interior could represent a large shell motif, from which the figure is emerging.

0829

Comments

Vessel: Dos Arroyos Orange Polychrome: Dos Arroyos Variety flanged bowl with figural design on interior.

117

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Square

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 13-2

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Dos Arroyos Orange Polychrome

Variety

Dos Arroyos

Form

bowl

Secondary characteristics

circumferential lines (eroded)

Kill hole?

Yes

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

< 50%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

42.00

Height (cm)

8.40

Weight (g)

1865.20

Comments

Bowl with rounded and incurved sides, a ring base with a drill hole, and a direct, rounded rim. The bowl is slipped on the interior. There is a dark red circumferential line and seven eroded circles painted around the rim. Lines are painted below the rim in 0.4 cm widths and 1-cm separation. The paste is brownish yellow (10YR 6/6) and has large rounded inclusions. The vessel was inverted over the cranium of a young adult burial.

0648

Comments

Construction Phase 2 after the pottery associated with Burials 13-1 and 13-2 were exposed but before the upper wall feature of Phase 3 had been removed, view to the east (note incorrect orientation of north arrow).

118

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 12-1

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguacate Orange

Variety

Aguacate

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

100%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

41.00

Height (cm)

0.00

Weight (g)

1382.60

Comments

A very shallow bowl with incurving walls, a direct rim, and flat lip. The dimensions are difficult to ascertain because most of the base is missing. The vessel was inverted over the head of an old adult male.

0212

Comments

Vessel: Interior view of Aguacate Orange: Aguacate Variety bowl. V# 118

121

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

208

Deposit type

sherd-lined pit

Specific context

Sherd Lined Pit

Ceramic complex

Early Chaakk'ax

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Early Chaakk'ax

Type

Joventud Red

Variety

Unspecified

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

< 50%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

38.00

Height (cm)

5.50

Weight (g)

1335.00

Comments

A Joventud Red bowl with outcurving walls and an everted rim with a rounded lip. The base is slightly incurved and has a diameter of 32 cm.

0669

Comments

Sherd-lined pit after excavation, Construction Phase 2c.

122

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 11-12a

Ceramic complex

Early K'atabche'k'ax

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Early K'atabche'k'ax

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

75% - 94%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

22.50

Height (cm)

7.20

Weight (g)

1014.00

Comments

DOA No: 33/200-5:14 A Sierra Red bowl that has outcurved walls, an everted rim thickened on the exterior, and a rounded lip. The diameter of the base is 14.5 cm. The bowl was inverted and placed over the chest of an adult female.

0833

Comments

Vessel: Sierra Red: Sierra Variety bowl.

124

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Deposit type

Specific context

Burial 10-3

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Aguila Orange

Variety

Aguila

Form

bowl

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Position

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

28.00

Height (cm)

6.10

Weight (g)

820.60

Comments

A flanged Aguila Orange bowl with slip on both the interior and exterior surfaces. The base diameter is 7 cm. The vessel was found inverted over the skull of an adult, extended interment. The burial apparently occurred on the cusp of the Terminal KÕatabcheÕkÕax to Early NohalkÕax transition.

0213

Comments

Vessel: Interior view of a Aguila Orange: Aguila Variety bowl. V# 124

125

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Cache

Specific context

Cache

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

jar

Secondary characteristics

miniature

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

95% - 99%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

4.40

Height (cm)

6.90

Weight (g)

88.40

Comments

Part of a miniature jar with a basal diameter of 3.3 cm. One of two miniatures found near the base of two lip-to-lip cache deposits.

126

Record details

Operation

Zone(s)

Subzone(s)

Deposit type

Cache

Specific context

Cache

Ceramic complex

Ceramic complex (non-stratigraphic)

Type

Sierra Red

Variety

Sierra

Form

jar

Secondary characteristics

miniature

Kill hole?

Cross motif?

Percentage of vessel

50% - 74%

Number of sherds

Rim diameter (cm)

4.30

Height (cm)

5.90

Weight (g)

77.30

Comments

One of two fragmentary miniature jars found near the base of two lip-to-lip cache deposits.