Globular body with well-rounded shoulder; high flaring ring foot; handle set on shoulder.

On some examples of the last quarter of the 6th century the shape is more ovoid; cf. the large inscribed hydria P 24910 R 12:4-POU Hesperia, XXV, 1956, p. 63 and pl. 22 c and f; also, of ordinary size, P 20800 R 12:1 Archaeology, X, 1957, p. 193, below at right.