Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KP 539 | |
Title: | SMALL KOTYLE | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KP | |
Object Number: | 539 | |
Description: | Small "skyphos" (identified in new publications as kotyle), rather broad concave body. Small, low ring foot, slight concave on undersurface, with small disk in center. Round horizontal loop handle attached to body below rim. | |
Decoration: | Covered in black slip, but traces of underpainting: solid black band across center of body; radiating lines between central band and foot. Potentially for added red paint, not surviving. | |
Material: | Fine pink clay. No visible inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Complete profile. 8 frgts., preserving complete profile. 1 handle, and parts of body and rim missing. Streaky black paint, partly worn off. | |
Manufacture: | C24 WM | |
Weight Description: | 0.021 | |
Weight: | 0.021 | |
Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
Area: | Potters' Quarter | |
Context: | NB106 P35 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Stelai shrine A. | |
Bibliography: | Stillwell & Benson 1984, Corinth 15.3, p. 191 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Potters' Quarter Basket: NB106 P35 Notebook Page: NB 106bis, spread 22 (pp. 34 - 35) |