| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 2324 | |
| Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE MEDALLION PAINTER | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 2324 | |
| Description: | Broad kotyle with incurving rim and horizontal loop handles. | |
| Decoration: | Black figure style. Two horizontal lines below lip, diagonal zigzags at rim. Frieze bordered by double lines: head of panther, r., and portion of siren's wing (a); raised wing of a siren, l. (b); part of a griffin-bird, l. (c); tail of a siren, l., and forepart of felin (panther?), l. (d); lower part of siren, l., and foot of feline, r. (e). Thin and long rays at base. Applied purple on wing cap and alternate wing feathers of siren, on breast of panther. The quality of drawing is careful and neat. | |
| Material: | Hard fired, pinkish orange clay. Rare, fine, rounded inclusions and rare, fine, spherical and platy voids. Black piant fired red, applied purple. | |
| Munsell Color: | from 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) to 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Five fragments from rim, body, portion of handle. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 15.3, n. 603; Corinth 20, 2003 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 7992 Image: bw 1965 078 12 |
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