Corinth Object: KP 107
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 107
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE SILHOUETTE GOAT PAINTER I
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   107
Related Objects:   KP 380
Description:   Small, wide kotyle, with incurving rim and high, small ring foot. Horizontal loop handles.
Decoration:   Silhouette style. One horizontal line below lip; handle zone filled with vertical wavy lines. Animal frieze bounded above and below by a broad purple band and two lines. Animal frieze: five goats and one bird just below one handle. Thin, crowded rays at base, continuing to frieze borde. Outer and inner edges of foot painted; resting surface reserved. Undersurface reserved with two concentric bands. Interior painted solid except for a reserved line at lip. Handles reserved. Filling ornaments: dots.
Material:   Hard pale brown clay. Black and purple paint, partly worn off at rim.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Complete or intact. Mended from many fragments. Missing few small fragments. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Well I.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, 1286; Benson 1983; Corinth 20, 3003
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 2491
Image: bw 1966 045 36