Corinth Object: KP 2321
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 2321
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PATRAS PAINTER
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   2321
Related Objects:   KP 421
Description:   Rather broad kotyle, with slightly incurving rim.
Decoration:   Black figure style. Painted band below lip, animal frieze preserving part of a siren, r., with raised sickle wing. Filling ornaments: rosettes divided by horizontal bars and vertical shading. Traces of applied purple paint on tail. Interior painted solid except for a reserved line at lip.
Material:   Hard fired, pale buff clay; rare fine rounded inclusions, few spherical and platy sub-rounded voids. Paint black, mostly worn off; traces of applied purple paint.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Seven joining fragments preserving part of rim and portion of upper-body.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Well I.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, 613; Corinth 20, 2003
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 8089
Image: bw 8256
Image: bw 1965 078 20