Corinth Object: C 1940 156
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 156
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   156
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 above by a line and below by double lines: lion, r., lion, r., goat, r., bird, r., looking backward. Applied purple on neck, mane, belly of lions, on neck of goat and on bird's wing. Filling ornaments: cross rosettes with cross incisions, incised small blobs, unincised crosses. Thin, widely spaced rays at base. Edges of ring foot painted; resting surface reserved. Interior painted solid except for a reserved line at lip. Handle reserved except a horizontal line.
Material:   Buff clay. Black paint and applied purple mostly worn off.
Munsell Color:   2.5 YR 8/3 (pale brown)
Condition:   Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. One handle, one-third of rim, part of upper-body, half of foot 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 29