Corinth Object: C 1940 145
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 145
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   145
Description:   Rather deep kotyle with flaring sides, slightly incurving rim. Horizontal loop handles.
Decoration:   Black figure style. One horizontal line below lip; vertical wavy lines between handles. Frieze bordered above by one broad line and below by double lines. Animal frieze: panther to r., goat to l., swan to r., goat to l. Applied purple on neck and belly of goats, on neck and belly of panther, on wing of bird (mostly gone). Filling ornament: unincised small crosses, blobs. Widely-spaced rays at base. Interior painted solid except for a reserved band below lip. Handles reserved with horizontal glazed stripe.
Material:   Hard-fired, buff clay. Black paint almost all worn off. Applied purple paint almost all worn off.
Munsell Color:   2.5 Y 8/2 (pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Mended from many fragments. One handle, foot and few small fragments of body missing. Partly restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Bibliography:   Weinberg, Hesperia 1948
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 2000 007 31