Corinth Object: C 1940 306
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 306
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   306
Description:   Kotyle with slightly incurving rim.
Decoration:   Black figure style. Two horizontal line below lip; vertical zigzags at rim. Animal frieze bounded above by a purple stripe: two confronted panthers and a bird in between facing right. Applied purple on shoulder, alternated ribs, belly of felines, and on feathers of bird. Filling ornament: plus rosettes with incised cross. Interior painted in solid red except for a reserved line below lip. Neat drawing.
Material:   Well-fired buff clay. Rare fine inclusions; rare fine sub-rounded voids. Brownish black paint mottled reddish. Applied purple paint.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Six joining fragments preseving very small part of rim and upper body.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Bibliography:   Weinberg, Hesperia 1948.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 2000 010 14a