Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KP 63 | |
Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PAINTER OF KP 63 | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KP | |
Object Number: | 63 | |
Related Objects: | CP 151 | |
Description: | Broad shaped kotyle with strongly incurving sides at rim, wide heavy ring foot. Horizontal loop handles. | |
Decoration: | Black figure style. One horizontal glazed band at rim. Handle zone filled with vertical wavy lines. Animal frieze bordere by double lines: panther, r., goat, l., panther, l., swan with raised wing, r. Thing rays at base. Outer and inner edges of foot painted black; resting surface reserved; undersurface with two concentric bands. Interior painted solid except for a reserved band along the rim. Handles reserved. Filling ornaments: irregular spoked rosettes, one double lotiform blob with incised lines (in front of swan), lotiform blob with parallel incised strokes raising from two parallel lines, small and large blobs with parallel incised lines, dots. Applied purple on chest, neck, ribs, belly, inner shoulder's section, haunches of animals; on breast, neck, central section of wing and feathers of swan. | |
Material: | Hard buff clay. Brownish black paint, applied purple. Orange smears on interior and exterior of rim. | |
Munsell Color: | 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Missing part of rim on one side, small fragments from body. Restored. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | |
Bibliography: | Corinth 15.3, 578; Benson 1983; Perachora II, p. 225, 2475; Corinth 20, 2003 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Images (5) Notebook Page: NB 106bis, spread 22 (pp. 34 - 35) |