Corinth Object: KP 248
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 248
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PAINTER OF KP 248
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   248
Description:   Kotyle with broad body, wide ring foot.
Decoration:   Black figure style. Animal frieze bordered by double bands (partly triple below): panther, r., swan with raised wing, l., swan with outstread wings, r. Short thin rays at base. Inner and outer edges of foot painted. Undersurface with concentric bands and a central dot. Interior painted solid. Applied purple on necks, breasts and both sections of wing caps of birds, on neck, shoulder, belly and haunch on panther. Filling ornaments: large and small blobs with irregular incisions, blobs.
Material:   Buff clay. Brownish paint, applied purple paint. Interior and exterior partly smeared with orange-red paint.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Missing parts. Missing rim and fragments from body. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Well 1.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, 583; Benson 1983; Corinth 20, 2003
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 3432