Corinth Object: KP 109
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 109
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   109
Description:   Rather deep kotyle, with flaring sides and small ring foot.
Decoration:   Silhouette style. Horizontal band below lip; animal frieze bounded below by double lines: lion and panther, r. Filling ornaments: large and small blobs, some corss shaped. Widely spaced rays at base. Resting surface reserved; inner and outer edges of foot painted; undersurface with one concentric band. Interior painted solid except for a reserved band at lip. Handles reserved. Though in silhouette technique, the incisions seem to be accidentally omitted.
Material:   Hard buff clay. Black paint, partly fired orange brown.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Missing parts. Missing one third of rim, about one side of body and part of base. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Well I.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, n.356
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 3430
Image: bw 1966 109 03