Corinth Object: C 1940 175
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 175
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   175
Description:   Small kotyle, convex sides slightly incurving at rim, small ring foot.
Decoration:   Silhouette style. One line below lip, handle zone decorated with triglyphs (four vertical wavy lines) and metopes, latter filled by one silhouette bird each. Below handles, chechered band between two lines above and below. Animal frieze bordered below by triple line: five horses to r., one bird to r. and a flying bird above. Filling ornament: a single blob and an unincised small rosette. Rays at base; edges of foot painted; undersurface reserved with a sincle concentric band around central dot. Interior painted solid except for two thin reseved bands, one at lip and the other below. Handles reserved with horizontal stripe.
Material:   Grayish buff clay with rare fine inclusions and voids. Black paint, mostly gone.
Munsell Color:   5 Y 8/3 (pale yellow)
Condition:   Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Both handles, one-third of rim and side missing. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, sub no. 1285
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 2000 007 18