Corinth Object: KP 698
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 698
Title:   KOTYLE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   698
Description:   Kotyle with false ring foot with disk in center of underside, flaring convex walls, and tapered lip; two round loop handles attached just below lip. Very similar to KP 225 (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 1128) from the same deposit.
Decoration:   Red stripe on foot, including part of underside, row of tear-drop shaped buds between two wide, red bands on body, two thin, red, lines above, row of red vertical bars just below lip, red on handles, black over entire interior, except just below lip, which is red. Late Conventionalizing Style (Risser 2003, Corinth 20, p. 164).
Material:   Fine, very pale brown clay with few medium, subrounded inclusions and few small voids.
Munsell Color:   10YR 8/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Missing parts. Fifteen joining frgts, preserving all of vessel except small frgt of rim and two very small body frgts; missing frgts restored in plaster; glaze flaking.
Manufacture:   WM
Weight Description:   0.091
Weight:   0.091
Period:   4th c. B.C.
Chronology:   ca. 350-325 B.C. (Stillwell and Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 211)
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB108 P197
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter, Terracotta Factory, Court, Deposit 2
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 1965 085 10
Notebook Page: NB 108, spread 99 (pp. 196 - 197)