Corinth Object: KP 456
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 456
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PAINTER OF KP 450
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   456
Related Objects:   KP 450
Description:   Rather small and deep kotyle with small ring foot with slanting inner edge.
Decoration:   Black figure style. One horizontal band at lip; vertical wavy lines at rim. Animal frieze bounded by double lines: swan, panther and goat, r. Thin rays at base. Inner and outer edges of foot pianted. Undersurface with thin concentric bands. Filling ornaments: spoked rosettes, blobs with incised spokes, spots.
Material:   Light brwon clay, with rare rounded fine inclusions, rare spherical and platy sub-rounded small voids. Black paint fired orange brown on lower part. Applied purple paint.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Missing parts. Missing handles, two-thirds of rim, one side. Partly restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Well I.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, 584, Benson 1983
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 8065
Image: bw 1965 089 32
Image: bw 1965 089 33