| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1940 171 | |
| Title: | EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PLUS PAINTER | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1940 | |
| Object Number: | 171 | |
| Description: | Rather deep kotyle, flaring convex body, small ring foot. Horizontal loop handles. | |
| Decoration: | Black Figure style. One horizontal glazed line below the lip and vertical wavy lines between handles. Animal frieze: three lions to r., a bird to r., looking backwards. Applied purple on mane, chest, belly, ribs and haunch of lions, on bird's neck and a single spot on the wing. Filling ornament: unincised heavy crosses and many blobs. Thin, widely spaced rays at base. Edges of ring foot painted; resting surface reserved; undersurface reserved with two concentric bands. Interior painted solid except for a reserved line at lip. Handle reserved except for a horizontal stripe. Heavy slapdash incisions, disproportional drawing with careless use of applied paint. | |
| Material: | Pale brown clay. Brownish black paint and applied purple. | |
| Munsell Color: | 2.5 Y 8/3 (pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Missing half the pot and half a handle. Restored. | |
| 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; Benson 1983, 322; Amyx, CVP, 134, no. 12. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece |
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