Large, bulbous jug with a domed base, retracting wall and flowing neck. Both sides of the object have been smoothened and polished. Its exterior has been primed, painted and polished. The black-brown colour was applied before the red decoration. The primer and paint are partially eroded. There are several fractures on the rim. The pottery has an orange-brown base colour, which is painted black-brown and red on the outside of the object. The rim of the vessel is decorated on both sides with a black-brown band. There is a frieze around the neck consisting of horizontal, black-brown lines. Two of the lines are dotted in opposite directions. The resulting negative effect creates the illusion of a wavy band. The shoulder is decorated with circumferential red lines. There is a further frieze on the central parts of the body, which repeats the decorations on the neck. Below this is a deep, all-round black and brown band. The inside of the neck of the vessel was primed in orange-brown. According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya polychrome ware. Cultural significance: the pottery of the Mora group was produced in the north-west of Costa Rica and traded to the Central Highlands and the Atlantic region of the country. It uses design elements (seated anthropomorphic figures with headdresses, mat motif, Kan cross) that are also known from the Maya ceramics (Copador group) of the Clásico Tardío (900-600d.C.). The jugs of the Cinta variant are reminiscent of vessel forms from the Gillén Negro sobre Café Claro group. (Künne 2004)