Corinth Object: C 1940 147
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 147
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   147
Description:   Rather shallow and small kotyle. Small ring foot and horizontal loop handles slightly tilted upward.
Decoration:   Black figure style. One horizontal line below lip; vertical wavy lines at rim. Frieze bordered above by one line and below by double lines. Animal frieze: lion to r., lion to r., goat to r. No use of applied purple paint. Filling ornament: rare unincised blobs and dots. Widely-spaced rays at base. Edges of ring foot painted; resting surface reserved; undersurface with two concentric lines. Interior painted solid with a reserved band at lip. Handles with horizontal stripe.
Material:   Buff clay, fired grayish at bottom. Brownish black paint mostly gone.
Munsell Color:   from 2.5 YR 8/2 (pale brown) to 2.5 YR 7/2 (light gray)
Condition:   Complete or intact. Mended from many fragments. Missing one small fragment of rim and few of side. 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 21