Corinth Object: KP 2039
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