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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | KP 64 | | Title: | | MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PAINTER OF KP 64 | | Category: | | Pottery | | Category Code: | | KP | | Object Number: | | 64 | | Description: | | Kotyle with flaring ring foot, flat undersurface, hemispherical body and two horizontal loop handles attached just below lip. | | Decoration: | | Black figure orientalizing style. Two fine and one broad concentric circle on undersurface; broad and fine ring on inner foot, broad ring on outer foot. Three decorative friezes: rays; animal frieze, bordered by three lines on bottom and two lines on top; wavy vertical lines between handles, single line along lip. Animal frieze: bird, capricorn and panther face right, follows ram facing left. Figures incised, features (wing, belly, neck) painted red-brown. Filled by rosettes and cloud-like motifs, all incised. Nearly half of vessel misfired - orange and red instead of black paint. Interior solid black. | | Material: | | Very fine pale brown clay, with rare, medium, rounded lime inclusions and rare, medium, rounded voids. | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Several frgts., preserving most of foot (two chips restored), most of body and one handle. Lip chipped. RIP. | | Manufacture: | | C18 WM | | Weight Description: | | 0.550 (with plaster) | | Weight: | | 0.550 | | Period: | | Middle Corinthian (595/590-570) | | Chronology: | | based on Corinth 15.3 | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Findspot Description: | | Potters' Quarter. Well I. | | Bibliography: | | Corinth 15.3, 575; Benson 1983; Brownlee 2003, Corinth 20, p.187; Pemberton 2020, Hesperia 89.2, fig. 3 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Images (4)
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