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rattle

Fired pottery rattle: bell-shaped with circular ribbed handle and central perforation in concave base. Two or three circumferential shallow grooves alternating with two bands of different width composed of groups of vertical, diagonal and horizontal grooves. External surface is brown and black, polished, slightly glossy.

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