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Corinth Object: C 1940 158 Collection: | | Corinth | Type: | | Object | Name: | | C 1940 158 | Title: | | EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PLUS PAINTER | Category Code: | | C | Year: | | 1940 | Object Number: | | 158 | 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., panther, r., bird looking backward, r. Applied purple on neck, mane of lions, on neck of bird (?). Filling ornaments: unincised heavy crosses and dots. Thin, widely spaced rays at base. Edges of ring foot painted; resting surface reserved; undersurface reserved with concentric band around a central dot. Interior painted solid except for a reserved line at lip. Handle reserved except a horizontal line. Heavy slapdash incisions. | Material: | | Buff clay, fired darker toward bottom. Black paint fired orange brown on one spot. Applied purple paint. | Munsell Color: | | from 10 YR 8/4 to 10 YR 7/3 (very pale brown) | Condition: | | Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Missing one handle and most of the rim. Partly 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.6. | Site: | | Corinth | City: | | Ancient Corinth | Country: | | Greece | References: | | Image: bw 2000 007 23
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