Corinth Object: KP 1297
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   KP 1297
Title:   MIDDLE CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE CONFRONTED PANTHERS PAINTER
Category:   Pottery
Category Code:   KP
Object Number:   1297
Description:   Kotyle with broad body, flaring sides with incurving rim.
Decoration:   Black figure style. Horizontal line at rim, vertical zigzag below. Main frieze bordered by double line; rays at base. Interior painted solid except for a reserved band at lip. Animal frieze: elongated panther, r. Filling ornaments: large and small spoked rosettes, spots with cross incisions, long blobs with incisions, dots. Black paint, fired orange and bown on pink clay. Applied purple on haunch, belly, neck and inner section of shoulder of panther.
Material:   Well fired buff clay, partly fired pink.
Munsell Color:   from 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown) to 7.5 YR 8/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Nine joining fragments preserving one-thirds of rim, part of body.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Middle Corinthian (595/590-570)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   Potters' Quarter. Northwest angle deposit.
Bibliography:   Corinth 15.3, 507, Benson 1983
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 6371