Corinth Object: KP 1116
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 1116
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   1116
Description:   Try piece. Large flaring foot ring, with narrow resting surface sloping to the centre. Hole in the undersurface of the foot, not in line with the axis of the vase, (Diam 0.016) the hole is fairly neat cut and was probably made after the vase was decorated. Ovoid body.
Decoration:   On the undersurface tow concentric circles; Foot is black. On the body: reserved area with vertical squiggly lines and upside down birds. Top is slipped black (fired red) with a single line in added white.
Material:   clay
Munsell Color:   10 YR 7/2 (light gray)
Condition:   Fragment. mended from 2 joining fragments, which preserve half of the base and a portion of the body
Dimensions Actual:   Diam bas 0.063; Th. 0.004
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.038
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Well I
Bibliography:   Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, cat. 265, p. 230
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stillwell & Benson, Corinth 15:3, 1984
Image: bw 6397