The decoration of the bowl comprises a whorl of calices and sepals in low relief. The handles consist of lotus flowers and buds supporting the emblem of “Eternal Life.” Upon the bowl are the prenomen and nomen of the king, and the legend around the rim reads:

“May he live, Horus ‘Strong Bull fair of births,’ the Two Goddesses ‘Beautiful of ordinances, quelling the Two Lands,’ Horus of Gold ‘Wearing the diadems and propitiating the Gods,’ The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Lord of the Two Lands, Neb-Kheperu-Re, granted life.”

“Live thy Ka, and mayst thou spend millions of years, thou lover of Thebes, sitting with thy face to the north wind, and thy eyes beholding felicity.”