Corinth Object: C 1940 155 Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | C 1940 155 | Title: | | EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PAINTER OF C-40-162 | Category Code: | | C | Year: | | 1940 | Object Number: | | 155 | Description: | | Rather deep kotyle, with flaring convex sides, slightly incurving rim, small ring foot. | Decoration: | | Black figure style. One horizontal line below lip; vertical zigzags at rim. Animal frieze bordered above by a single line, and below by double stripes. Animal frieze: goat to r., panther to l., goat to r. Filling ornament: small unincised blobs and crosses. Applied purple on neck, belly of goats and haunch of panther. Thin, widely spaced rays at base. Edges of foot painted; resting surface reserved; undersurface reserved except for two concentric circles. Interior solid painted with a thin reseved line along lip. Handles with horizontal stripe. | Material: | | Hard-fired, buff clay, fired greyish to bottom. Rare very fine rounded inclusions; rare fine sub-rounded platy voids. Brownish black paint, mostly worn off. Applied purple paint, mostly worn off. | Munsell Color: | | from 2.5 YR 8/2 (pale brown) to 2.5 YR 7/2 (light gray) | Condition: | | Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Missing handles (except for one attachment), about half of rim and upper-body. | Manufacture: | | WM | Period: | | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | Provenance: | | Corinth | Findspot Description: | | New Museum East. Well 1940-2. | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Image: bw 2000 007 30
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