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Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | KP 2039 | Title: | | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PUFFED-UP OWL PAINTER | Category: | | Pottery | Category Code: | | KP | Object Number: | | 2039 | Description: | | Kotyle with flaring sides slightly incurving ar rim. | Decoration: | | Black figure style. One glazed line below lip; vertical wavy lines at rim; main frieze bounded by double lines above. Interior painted solid with a reserved band at lip. Animal frieze: raised wing of siren, l., forepart of panther, r. (a); owl, r., rear of feline, r. (b). Filling ornaments: large spoked rosettes with double centers, small unincised rosettes, incised and unincised blobs. Appplied purple on central section of wings of siren and owl, on haunch s and breasts of panthers. | Material: | | Well fired pinkish clay. Paint fired red. | Munsell Color: | | from 7.5 YR 8/4 (pink) to 5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | Condition: | | Fragment. Two upper-body fragments, one preserving part of rim | Manufacture: | | WM | Period: | | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | Provenance: | | Corinth | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Northwest angle deposit. | Bibliography: | | Corinth 15.3, 511; Benson 1983 | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Image: bw 6379
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