Corinth Object: C 1940 176 Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | C 1940 176 | Title: | | EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE | Category Code: | | C | Year: | | 1940 | Object Number: | | 176 | Description: | | Small kotyle, convex sides slightly incurving at rim, small ring foot. | Decoration: | | Silhouette style. One line below lip, handle zone decorated with triglyphs (four vertical wavy lines) and plain metopes. Below handles, chechered band between two lines above and below. Animal frieze bordered below by triple line: bird. horse, deer, goat, horse, goat, all to r. Rays at base; edges of foot painted; undersurface reserved with a sincle concentric band around central dot. Interior painted solid except for a reserved band below lip. Handles reserved with horizontal stripe. | Material: | | Grayish buff clay with rare fine inclusions and voids. Black paint, mostly gone. | Munsell Color: | | 5 Y 8/3 (pale yellow) | Condition: | | Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Handles, small parts of rim and sides missing. Restored. | Manufacture: | | WM | Period: | | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | Provenance: | | Corinth | Findspot Description: | | New Museum East. Well 1940-2. | Bibliography: | | Corinth 15.3, sub no. 1285 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Image: bw 2000 009 17a
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