Agora Object: H 496
Inventory Number:   H 496
Title:   Oinochoe
Description:   Intact but for part of mouth.
Band handle and flaring ring foot. Double vertical dot row down reserved shoulder in front; to either side, two sets of compass-drawn concentric semicircles (8), centers filled with hourglasses. On handle, ladder pattern, lowest rung a ring; inside of mouth glazed.
Greatly pitted and flaked pinkish buff clay; shiny black glaze.
With its proportions this oinochoe is late: over-pointed oval body, dainty foot, low slim neck; cf. Desborough, Protogeometric Pottery, pp. 47ff.
Dimensions:   H. 0.227; Max. Dim. 0.136
Chronology:   Late Protogeometric
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 16 (1975), no. 190, p. 55, pl. 17.