Corinth Object: KP 757
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 757
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN SMALL KOTYLE BY THE KP 44 WORKSHOP
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   757
Description:   Small hemispherical kotyle with loop handles slightly tilted upwards.
Decoration:   Corinthian black-figured style. Vertical zigzags, bordered by two circumferences above and by a double checker pattern band below; animal frieze bordered below by horizontal band; short rays at base. Animal frieze: siren with polos and raised wing, panther to right, goat to right. Filling ornaments: spoked and also unincised rosettes, blobs. Interior, solid painted except a reserved line at rim. Brownish paint, mostly worn off; added purple paint.
Material:   Hard fired pale yellow clay.
Munsell Color:   5 Y 8/4 (pale yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. Many joining fragments. Preserved two-thirds of rim, body, part of handles. Paint partially worn.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Aryballos deposit.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, 362; Benson 1983
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 8089
Image: bw 1965 086 14
Notebook Page: NB 106bis, spread 98 (pp. 186 - 187)