Round-bottomed bowl with a hollow, fragmented base. The ceramic has a bevelled lip on which there are sculptural applications and incisions. The base has several narrow openings. The object has been smoothed, slurried, primed and polished on both sides. Its exterior has been scratched and painted. The primer and paint are partially eroded. The restored object has fractures and flaws. The ceramic has an orange-red base colour. The bevelled lip is decorated with short, vertical line bundles and bead-shaped overlays. White colour residues are visible on the incisions and overlays. The black paint appears to have been completely eroded. According to Lothrop 1926: Nicoya black line ware. According to Lehmann 1913: El Viejo style. Cultural significance: although the Tola Tricromo group is considered a diagnostic indicator of the Policromo Antiguo (800-500d.C.), Bonilla et al. (1987) date it to the period of zoned bicoloured pottery. The Costa Rican variant López has been documented above all in the Bahía de Culebra and in the valley of the Río Tempisque. It appears to have originated from the Rosales Esgrafiado en zonas group (500d.C.-500a.C.). The Nicaraguan variant Tola has many similarities with the Chávez Blanco sobre Rojo group (800-500d.C.). The object belongs to a group of decontextualised objects that Lehmann found in a burial ground near El Viejo in March 1908. There are said to be 480 objects from Huaca A alone. In addition to ceramics, they also include axes, rubbing stones, shells and "greenstones". The latter were associated with inhumations. (Künne 2004)