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Figure of a sea creature that has broken off the top of a funerary urn. The stylized, grey ceramic creature is called a shachihoko (鯱鉾/鯱), a mythical sea creature with the head of a tiger or dragon and the body of a fish. The creature's tail curves upwards and over its back.
Red-brown, pot-shaped clay vessel with a short foot, rounded sides, and a large circular mouth ringed by a raised lip; a thin glaze and bands of linear patterning decorate the jar.
Squat, rounded vase with a short neck and wide body. An incised radial linear design centred around the neck is coloured brown, blue, and green.
Cup is raised on a base, edges are slightly lobed and outer sides are incised with a leaf motif.
Roughly rectangular piece of black granite with hieroglyphs incised in vertical columns on one side. Incised side is flat and relatively smooth; edges and sides are rough; bottom is partially rounded.
Ornament consisting of a seal (a) and an impression (b). Both depict a bull figure standing in profile under the sun and moon with foliage to the sides. The seal is oval with a rounded back and the impression is an off-white square clay slab.
Seal (a) and clay slab (b). The seal is composed of black stone in a cylindrical shape with images incised into the surface: a female wild boar, two goats standing on their hind legs facing each other, a bird, a small boar and trees in the background. The seal is pierced with a hole that extends from end to end. The clay slab is rectangular with a bas-relief impression of the images from the seal.
Spotted animal, possibly a leopard, stands on a square base and whose back forms the bowl of the pipe. Long tubular protrusion extends from the bowl. Top of the edge has broken off.
Large ceramic lid from a funerary urn. The recangular lid is in the shape of a palace roof. At the end of the ridge of the roof are three-dimensional shachihoko (鯱鉾/鯱), a mythical sea creature with the head of a tiger or dragon and the body of a fish, projecting upward. On both sides are the heads of shishi (獅子), a mythical guardian lion, protruding outward. Glaze colours are predominantly turquoise and brown. The epitaph called migachi or miigachi (ミガチ/ミーガチ/銘書) in Okinawan is on the bottom of the urn lid.
Two piece urn, with body (part a) and lid (part b). Made in a style called goten-gata zushigame (御殿型厨子甕), an urn in the form of a palace. On the front are two Buddhist figures, each in the centre of a lotus, in relief, in turquoise on a dark brown ground. On the top of the lid, are two three-dimensional shachihoko (鯱鉾/鯱), a mythical sea creature with the head of a tiger or dragon and the body of a fish. On the front is an epitaph, called migachi or miigachi (ミガチ/ミーガチ/銘書) in Okinawan. There is another migachi under the lid.