| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1940 143 | |
| Title: | EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PLUS PAINTER | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1940 | |
| Object Number: | 143 | |
| Description: | Rather deep kotyle with flaring sides, slightly incurving rim, small ring foot. Horizontal loop handle. | |
| Decoration: | Black figure style. One horizontal glazed line below lip and vertical wavy lines between handles. Animal frieze bounded by two horizontal lines above and below: lion, r., lion, r., bird, r. (under handle). Lions have spiral tail. Applied purple on neck, mane of lions, on neck of bird (?). Filling ornaments: unincised heavy crosses and dots. Six, thin, widely-spaced rays at base. Edges of ring foot painted; resting surface reserved; undersurface reserved with two concentric circles. Interior painted solid except for a reserved line at lip. Handle reserved except a horizontal line. Heavy slapdash incisions. | |
| Material: | Buff clay, fired slighyly pinkish on one side. Black paint, fired orangish brown on one side. Applied purple paint. | |
| Munsell Color: | from 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown) to 7.5 YR 8/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Missing one handle and small parts of rim and wall. | |
| Manufacture: | WM | |
| Period: | Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590) | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Findspot Description: | New Museum East. Well 1940-2. | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth 7.2, sub no.53; Amyx, CVP, 133, no.2 (painter of C-40-159); Benson 1983, 322; Hesperia Suppl. 28, 15, no.43. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece |
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