Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | KP 757 | |
Title: | EARLY CORINTHIAN SMALL KOTYLE BY THE KP 44 WORKSHOP | |
Category: | Pottery | |
Category Code: | KP | |
Object Number: | 757 | |
Description: | Small hemispherical kotyle with loop handles slightly tilted upwards. | |
Decoration: | Corinthian black-figured style. Vertical zigzags, bordered by two circumferences above and by a double checker pattern band below; animal frieze bordered below by horizontal band; short rays at base. Animal frieze: siren with polos and raised wing, panther to right, goat to right. Filling ornaments: spoked and also unincised rosettes, blobs. Interior, solid painted except a reserved line at rim. Brownish paint, mostly worn off; added purple paint. | |
Material: | Hard fired pale yellow clay. | |
Munsell Color: | 5 Y 8/4 (pale yellow) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Many joining fragments. Preserved two-thirds of rim, body, part of handles. Paint partially worn. | |
Manufacture: | WM | |
Period: | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Potters' Quarter. Aryballos deposit. | |
Bibliography: | Corinth 15.3, 362; Benson 1983 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Image: bw 8089 Image: bw 1965 086 14 Notebook Page: NB 106bis, spread 98 (pp. 186 - 187) |