The handle of the lid of this vessel shows the decapitated head of a character - possibly the Maize God - with a stark mandible and an exorbitant left eye, emerging from the snout of a reptile, a mythical image of Itzamnaaj as a great land alligator. The sacrificed character appears four more times on the cover, as a possible reference of ancestral beings; under the handle with a dear headdress descending to the underworld in a river of blood; and to the left and right with snake and peccary headdresses respectively. The fourth figure is on the back of the reptile.
