Small, round-bottomed jug with a medium-length rim and short neck. The object has a projecting rim with a rounded lip. It has been smoothed and slurried on both sides. Its exterior is primed, painted and polished. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The ceramic has a white-yellowish base colour, which was painted black and red. The neck, rim and base are painted red. The wall is decorated with a frieze running around the shoulder and bordered by black bands. It shows geometric motifs (triangles, concentric triangles, trapezoids) with one or more dots in the centre. The inside of the neck has a white-yellowish background. Symbolic meaning: Holmes (1888: 183) and MacCurdy (1911) refer to discs, trapezoids, triangles and squares with dots in their centre as scale or alligator motifs. However, the same decorations also occur in other animal groups. According to Holmes 1888: alligator ware. According to Lehmann: Chiriquí style. Cultural significance: Stone (1958: 48) reports that objects of this type were associated with iron objects in a burial. She therefore assumes that these ceramics were still being produced in the Diquís region (Pacífico Sur) after the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. (Künne 2004)