No one really knows what to think of this new vessel. Clearly out of context from the rest of the deposit, of no comparable artistic style or school — who made this? Where did it come from? An heirloom, they presume, much older than the surrounding layers, but why?
And the vessel itself. A canopic jar, judging by its contents, but covered in globules like a pine cone or grape cluster. Except the globules each have a line straight down the middle, and nearest the base just a few open up as a beetle’s wings — an apt comparison, save for the fleshy terracotta revealed below. For the figures underneath, grasping and gripping onto the jar as a foal to the mare, were humanoid. Human, one might say, until they saw the single beetle-winged figure near the jar’s crown, baring fangs and staring with dead empty eyes.
