Jug

Painted; Broken in consequences of salt

Face-neck vessel. Narrow-necked jar/bottle with an ovate body, cylindrical neck, rounded rim, no handles, and a flat base. The vessel has a modeled face on the neck with ears, eyes, mouth, and nose. The shoulder of the vessel is painted with double sided animal heads and bands of white framing the different sections. There appears to be a roughly burnished finish on the exterior and a smoothed finish on the interior. The vessel was likely fired in an oxidizing atmosphere as the ceramic paste is orange in color. There are striations from smoothing tool on the interior. The catalogue number is written on each sherd. Black ink on many sherds reads: "3269."