Ewer

Coroplasty. It is probably a zoomorphic ewer pourer, a giraffe's head. It has plastic decoration of eyes, mouth, tongue, nose, ears and horns. In the center of the head there is a crest that ends in the nostrils. On its sides there are two prominent eyes that are perforated connecting with the inside of the head, through which the liquid would be poured. It is made of pinkish clay with thick degreaser.

This ewer entails the curiosity that it would expel the water through the eyes and not the mouth, as would be usual in objects of these characteristics. For this reason, it presents the tongue as an added motif that highlights the uniqueness of the piece.
Another possibility would be that this fragment was part of some type of fountain with a modest spout.

According to the research carried out by Aránzazu Mendívil, this piece has parallels in Murcia (12th-13th centuries), in Medina Azahara (a caliphal giraffe ewer), Mérida (on a piquera lamp disc from the Almohad period from the Alcazaba of Mérida), Mallorca (Abrigo de Zabellá), Barcelona (zoomorphic container reminiscent of a dromedary sitting on its legs with chronology from the 11th century), Denia (El Fortí), Cannes (glazed container from the wreck of Betéguier with the body of a giraffe), France (Saintonge) or Portugal (Silves).