Black ceramic pot covered with white pigment and in the shape of a seated anthropomorphic figure. Pot has a round body, a ringed foot and a wide neck with a hole in the middle of each side and a split in the top resulting in the formation of 2 handles. There are 2 lugs on the top of the vessel one on the top of each "handle" with a holes in their centres. Arms and legs project from one side of vessel and there are hooked beak shaped protrusions on both sides of the neck. Body decorated with incised and raised patterns.
container (household miscellany)
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