Corinth Object: KP 34
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 34
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE KP 34 WORKSHOP
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   34
Description:   High ring foot with slanting inner edge, tall body.
Decoration:   Corinthian black-figure style. Vertical zigzags on rim, below triple checker band bordered by double horizontal lines. Frieze: six galloping horses and riders. Below frieze, double thick horizontal lines; at base double rays. Outer and inner edges of foot painted, resting surface reserved. Undersurface, whorl encircled by line. Very neat and accurate incision with applied purple. Filling ornaments: incised rosettes, incised palmette-like rosettes, rosettes with parallel incision, smaller rosettes with incised crosses, spots.
Material:   Light brown clay fired light orange on one side. Brownish black paint with applied purple. Rare rounded inclusions, rare rounded voids.
Munsell Color:   from 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown) to 5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow)
Condition:   Missing parts. Many joining fragments, missing handles, most of rim and large parts of body. Foot preserved.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB108 P15
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Aryballos Deposit.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, 364; Benson 1983
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 3532
Basket: NB108 P15
Notebook Page: NB 82, spread 27 (pp. 46 - 47)