Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KP 1097 | |
Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KP | |
Object Number: | 1097 | |
Description: | Ovoid body, slightly incurved lip with a tapered ending. In the body is pierced an hole (diam. 0.017) rather crudely cut | |
Decoration: | Slip is black and of good quality. Exterior, from bottom to top: remains of rays. Above, two horizontal bands, the central frieze with a Siren with anatomical details incised and in added red. Fill is made of spoked rosettes and dots. Above the frieze, two horizontal bands. Above that, on the lip pattern of vertical squiggly lines and two horizontal lines. Inside is completely slipped black. | |
Material: | clay | |
Munsell Color: | 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. mended from numerous fragments. It preserves a portion of the rim an circa 20% of the body. | |
Dimensions Actual: | Th. 0.003 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.117; W. 0.099 | |
Dimensions Restored: | Est. diam 0.19 | |
Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Well I | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 598, p.121 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984 Image: bw 6385 |