Drawing the Face Pot

I know I'm beginning to sound like a bit of broken record, but it's worth saying once more: every time you think you've seen it all here, something completely unexpected pops out of the ground. Take our so-called "Face Pot". It's completely unlike anything else we've ever found here. I don't know yet what Nurcan and the other pottery people will make of it - whether it's a trade item or what. Regardless, I think I'm right in saying it's without precendent on the site.
And that's what makes it so much fun to draw! It has been in conservation being stuck back together over the past week or so, which has given the pottery people time to locate any other stray bits of it. Once the pottery lab was happy that all the pieces of it had been located, and Conservation was finished gluing it all together, it was ready for me. I picked it up yesterday afternoon and spent this morning drawing it. It's a difficult vessel, since it's incomplete, and missing three quarters of its rim and most of its base. That makes it very difficult to support while measuring - and given the decoration on it and the somewhat squashed-basket shape, the measuring of even a complete vessel like this would be difficult. In the end the usual combination of several rulers and a support made out of a roll of masking tape covered with a wadded up bundle of cloth seemed to do the trick.

Here's not the finds drawing that I did this morning, but instead a sketch of how the vessel might have originally looked.