Corinth Object: KP 673
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 673
Title:   SKYPHOS OF DEEP LATE TYPE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   673
Description:   Kotyle with irregular disk foot, slightly convex body, vertical rounded lip; handle attachments at level of lip. Several globs of clay adhering to both interior and exterior. Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 253, suggest this vessel may have been made by apprentice. Shape and size similar to KV-388 (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1720).
Decoration:   String marks on base, wheelmarks and smoothing marks visible throughout; thin, patchy black glaze on resting surface and interior, irregular dots of glaze along exterior of lip, few scattered drips and blobs.
Material:   Fine very pale brown clay with few medium, subrounded pink inclusions and few medium voids.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/2 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Complete profile. Two joining frgts., preserving all of base, 80% of body and rim, both horizontal handles missing; glaze flaking.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   0.028
Weight:   0.028
Period:   Late Corinthian
Chronology:   Late Corinthian III, accorinding to Corinth 15.3, p. 253
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB114 P37
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter, Terracotta Factory, Unknown Provenance
Bibliography:   Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1408
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 1966 023 32
Notebook Page: NB 114, spread 23 (pp. 36 - 37)