Ceramic: Mesa Verde Black-on-white bowl AZRU1-842

Mesa Verde Black-on-white bowl, Accession AZRU-00001 Catalog #842. Morris FS 3772. Analyzed by Lori Reed 2011. 100% complete with 20% plaster type material restoration. Measurements: 22.8 x 19.5 cm diameter (warped), 9.5 cm height. Image AZRU1-842 A: bowl exterior view with flash. Image AZRU1-842 B: bowl exterior view. Image AZRU1-842 C: bowl exterior view. Image AZRU1-842 D: bowl exterior view. Image AZRU1-842 E: bowl interior view. Image AZRU1-842 F: bowl interior view. Image AZRU1-842 G: closeup of interior design. Image AZRU1-842 H: view of heavily worn exterior base. Recovered from Earl Morris excavation of Room 145, upper floor, Aztec West Ruin. Morris’ description of Room 145 states: “The floor of Room 145 was black from long use. In the center was a fire pit…excavated into clean sand…The lowest stratum of the fill was refuse with artifacts that included a copper bell. The surface of the deposit had been smoothed and an adobe floor laid upon it. In the center thereof was a circular fire pit, slightly smaller than the one directly beneath it, and midway between this one and the northeast corner was another, walled with cobblestones” (Morris 1928:393).
Reference: Earl Morris, 1928, Notes on Excavations in the Aztec Ruin, Volume XXVI, Part V, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, New York.