This early Bronze Age vessel remains remarkably intact for its age and would have been used for storage before being buried with its owner for the afterlife.

Across the Levant, the socio-economic system changed significantly between the Proto-Urban period and the Early Bronze Age at the start of the 3rd millennium BCE. Through productive agriculture, village based economies developed into larger settlements by increasing trade across the regions. By 2800 BCE, characteristics of urbanisation, such as bureaucracy and public buildings started to appear.

Today, vessels such as this, seem just as readily decorative as they do utilitarian – an effect accentuated by the earthy patination obtained after years underground.