| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | C 1940 146 | |
| Title: | EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PLUS PAINTER | |
| Category Code: | C | |
| Year: | 1940 | |
| Object Number: | 146 | |
| 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 looking backward, r. Applied purple on neck, mane of lions, on neck of bird (?). The streaming tail of lion overlaps on the face of the following lion. Filling ornaments: unincised heavy crosses and dots. 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: | Well-compacted buff clay, with rare fine rounded incusions, rare fine sub-rounded platy voids. Black paint, partly worn off, applied purple paint. | |
| Munsell Color: | from 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown) to 2.5 YR 7/3 (pale brown) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Mended from many fragments. Missing one handle, small parts of rim and body. 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, 133, no.4. | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Image: bw 2000 007 26 |
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