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