| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 2322 | |
| Title: | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PAINTER OF MP 6 | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 2322 | |
| Description: | Rather broad kotyle with slightly incurving rim. | |
| Decoration: | Black figure style. Horizontal line at rim, vertical wavy lines below. Animal frieze bounded above by purple band and black band: wing of sphinx, l., and another wing of sphinx, r. (a); forepart of siren with reverted head, r., forepart of sphinx, l. Interior painted solid except for a reserved band at lip. Filling ornaments: lotiform rosette. Applied purple on faces and necks of siren and sphinx, on wing caps. | |
| Material: | Hard fired buff clay. Black paint, fired partly red on interior, applied purple paint. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two fragments. Preserved fragment of rim with handle (a) and part of upper-body (b). | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Period: | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 15.3, 602 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 6384 |
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