| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | KP 247 | |
| Title: | PLATE OF ORIENTALIZING STYLE | |
| Category: | Pottery | |
| Category Code: | KP | |
| Object Number: | 247 | |
| Description: | Flat floor, rising slightly in center. Broad, flat resting surface. Strongly outcurved rim with heavy rounded molding at bottom and three thin grooves at upper edge. | |
| Decoration: | In center of interior, four lotus flowers and four buds alternately spring from central circle. Flowers have widely flaring outer leaves, two short curved incised lines at core and two parallel lines in center, extending beyond edge of flower and probably representing stamens. Buds have inner section painted purple, outlined by incised lines. Outside this, alternate-dot band bounded by circumf. Lines. Animal frieze with two circumf. Lines below: part of swan, r., panther, r., siren with sickle wing, r. Applied-purple spots on swan's breast, purple on inner section of panther's shoulder, alternate ribs, belly, and two sections of haunch; on face and breast of siren, inner section of wing cap and in zigzag between double-incised lines across tail. F.o. of spoked rosettes, rosettes with incised crosses, cross rosettes and blobs (incised and unincised). On rim, diagonal zigzags above two circumf. Lines. Applied purple on upper and lower surfaces of upper edge and on resting surface of foot. Concentric black band halfway between foot and center of bottom. | |
| Material: | Buff clay. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Part of floor and rim (partly restored) preserved. | |
| Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth XV.III, no. 761; AJA 65, 1961, p. 3 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 3561 |
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