Museum catalogue photograph of an ember-carrying vessel from a civilisation that never existed: a small lidded pot of thick dark clay with a braided cord handle, its lid and upper body pierced by rows of slanted breathing holes, the inside thickly lined with grey ash and a few charcoal lumps. Black soot stains fan upward from each hole on the outside, heavier on one side where it was carried against the body. The lid is displayed lifted beside the pot. Neutral grey seamless background, raking light from the left, a black-and-white scale bar and a small accession card beside the object with no legible writing on it. Archaeological museum catalogue documentation style. No readable text, no letters, no numbers, no logos.