Moundville Engraved Bottle

Description

**Moundville Engraved, *var. Cyprus* bottle** Location: Moundville, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Period: Mississippian. Material: ceramic. Dimensions: height, 17.5 cm; diameter, 17.1 cm. Notes: Excavated in 1978 by C. Margaret Scarry north of Mound R. Published in Vincas P. Steponaitis, Vernon J. Knight, Jr., George E. Lankford, Robert V. Sharp, and David H. Dye (2011), "Iconography of the Thruston Tablet," in *Visualizing the Sacred: Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World*, edited by George E. Lankford, F. Kent Reilly III, and James F. Garber, fig. 7.25 (University of Texas Press). Model by Abigail Gancz.