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
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