Small, bulbous jug with a flattened base. The object has a short, slightly protruding neck with a flattened lip. There is a vertical strap handle on the rim of the body. The vessel is decorated with a superimposed anthropomorphic face and notches. The ceramic is smoothed, slurried and primed on both sides. The primer is partially eroded. The monochrome object has a brown base colour. On the body is a superimposed, anthropomorphic face with a half-open mouth. Its snake-shaped eyebrows have dotted ornaments. Four attached vertical ridges, also decorated with stitch marks, appear on the opposite body parts. The inner edge is mottled brown and slightly polished. The body remains undecorated. According to Lothrop 1926: highland, stone cist ware, punctured line decoration. Cultural significance: pottery produced in the Central Highlands, on the Atlantic slope and in the Diquís region. The historical groups Curridabat ware (Hartman 1907), stone cist ware (La Cabaña Aplicado), red ware, type C (Lothrop 1926) and handled group (Holmes 1888; MacCurdy 1911) are closely related from a typological perspective. The ceramics were produced in periods VI (1550-1000d.C.) and V (1000-500d.C.). Monochrome, plastically decorated wares are known from both stone cist tombs and household contexts. Hartman (1901: 31-33) found objects of the La Cabaña Aplicado type associated with glass beads at Las Mercedes (Atlantic Slope). Stone (1977: 167) reports ceramics of the same group (stone cist ware) from Tuis (Central Highlands), which contained a Venetian glass bead. (Künne 2004)