Unguentarium

Dish foot only slightly concave on underside. Rotund body is a bit more than hemispherical, terminating in a nipple on top. A vertical ring handle is set just above mid-point on one side. At about a 45 degree angle from it rises a slender vertical neck which expands above into a large bell-shaped mouth. Between the handle and the nipple is a small hole, no doubt an escape valve in firing. The underside is unglazed; otherwise the pot is covered with fair black glaze. Faint wheel-run lines around mid point of body. Hemisphere, bell-mouth. Sparkes & Talcott call this shape a perfume-pot.