Evansville Museum of Arts, Science, & History (1961.085.0002)
Complete, mold-made bowl of the rounded bowl type with incised and molded decoration. Shank terminates in a reinforced rim. Made of a red/pink clay that is hard and well-fired with a white slip or slurry. The pipe bowl would have been one of the three components comprising a 17th-18th century Ottoman tobacco smoking pipe, the other two being a stem likely made of wood, and a mouth piece made of clay, stone, ivory, or coral. Organic material was extant in the borehole, visible from the stem end of the shank, while it did not appear to be the remnants of tobacco, the organic material was left inside the borehole for possible future sampling. The pipe bowl comes from the Gerash region.
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