This blackware, clay vessel has a bulbous body, a flared neck with an everted rim, and a tall flared foot. The sides are decorated with incised motifs filled with a stamped design. Four small holes around the rim suggests the vessel was once hung with a string. Perhaps to store grain and other foods away from rodents and other pests.The site of Ban Chiang was first discovered in 1957. Pottery was found with skeletal remains, glass beads as well as iron and bronze bracelets. Early Period pottery consisted mainly of ceramic vessels in ring-based or pedestalled forms. Decorations were mostly abstract geometric and curvilinear shapes divided into bands across the vessel.Painted vessels such as this were probably not used as everyday ware in the Ban Chiang culture. These vessels were probably used as burial jars to contain either food or objects for the decesaed in their afterlife.
