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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KP 17 | | Title: | | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PAINTER OF KP 17 | | Category: | | Pottery | | Category Code: | | KP | | Object Number: | | 17 | | Description: | | Kotyle with flaring ring foot, flat undersurface, hemispherical body, tapered vertical lip and two horizontal loop handles. | | Decoration: | | Black-figure orientalizing style. Three fine and one broad concentric rings on undersurface, broad band on either side of foot. Three friezes: rays; animal frieze bordered by two lines; short wavy vertical lines between handles, two lines along the lip. Main panel shows bird in flight, panther and goat facing right, follows panther facing left, all incised; bodies heavily elongated. Filled by incised rosettes and dots. Interior solid color. Nearly all paint is gone - both on exterior and interior. | | Material: | | Very fine grayish pale green clay fired pale yellow in the upper part, with few, medium, rounded inclusions and rare, medium, rounded voids. | | Munsell Color: | | Lower part: between 2.5Y 7/2 and GLEY1 7/1; Upper part: 2.5Y 8/3 | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Several frgts., preserving nearly whole foot (chip restored) and body (five frgts., restored) and both handles. Most of vessel fired greyish green, closer to lip fired pale yellow. RIP. | | Manufacture: | | C18 WM | | Weight Description: | | 0.460 (with plaster) | | Weight: | | 0.460 | | Period: | | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | | Chronology: | | based on Corinth15.3 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | | Bibliography: | | Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 118 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Image: bw 3428
Image: bw 1966 046 05
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