Corinth Object: C 1940 151
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 151
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   151
Description:   Small kotyle, with rather deep body and slightly incurving rim; small ring foot and horizontal loop handles.
Decoration:   Silhouette style. One horizontal glazed line below lip; handle zonde decorated with triglyphs (five vertical wavy lines) and plain metopes. Animal frieze bordered below and above by double line: thre goose-stepping felines (panthers?), two felines (lions?), all to r. Filling ornament: three unincised small crosses. Widely-spaced rays at base. Glazed band on the outer edge of ring foot; inner edge painted; resting surface reserved; undersurface reserved except for a circular band around a central dot. Interior fully reddish glazed except for two reserved thin bands, one at lip, the other just below. Handles reserved with horizontal stripe.
Material:   Pale brown clay, fired pinkish on one side. Orange brown to blackish paint.
Munsell Color:   From 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown) to 7.5 YR 8/4 (pink)
Condition:   Missing parts. One-third of rim and side missing. Restored
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Bibliography:   Weinberg, Hesperia 1948
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 2000 007 28