Jar with Snakes
Cylindrical Jar with Cobras Spitting Ankhs
Ceramic, paint
Ballana, Cemetery B, tomb 130, Meroitic Phase III (200-250 CE), OIM 22563
Photo ©Joan Ann Lansberry, 2010
It's very likely the artisan was thinking of the snake god Nehebu-kau as "Provider of Life-Energies".