Corinth Object: KP 1804
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 1804
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PAINTER OF THE YALE KOTYLE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   1804
Description:   Rather small kotyle with incurving rim.
Decoration:   Black figure style. Two horizontal lines below lip; handle zone filled with vertical wavy lines. Animal zone bounded above bt two bands enclosing band with two rows of dots, below by two bands flanking fine lines. Animal frieze: feline, l. (a), feline and probably rear of goat, r. (b). Thin crowded rays at base. Interior painted solid. Filling ornaments: rosettes with incised crosses. Applied purple on shoulders and sections of haunch of felines, on ribs of one feline (other has no rib incisions).
Material:   Pale brown clay. Rare fine rounded inclusions. Black paint, mostly worn off, applied purple paint.
Munsell Color:   surface: 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown); core: 7.5 YR 8/3 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Four body fragments.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. North Dump.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, 550; Benson 1983
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 6381