Corinth Object: C 1940 174
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 174
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   174
Description:   Rather deep kotyle, flaring convex body, small ring foot. Horizontal loop handles
Decoration:   Black figure style.One horizontal line below lip; vertical wavy lines between handles. Frieze bordered by broad line: swan between lion and bull ... feline to l. bird to l. Applied purple for details of bodies of animals. Filling ornament: small cross rosettes with cross incision, fused dot-cluster rosettes. Widely-spaced rays at base. Edges of ring foot painted; resting surface reserved; undersurface reserved with concentric band around centrl blob. Interior painted solid. Handle reserved except for a horizontal stripe.
Material:   Pale brown clay. Black paint and applied purple paint.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Missing parts. Mended from many fragments. Two-thirds of rim, one handle, one side missing. Restored.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Chronology:   Early in Early Corinthian Period.
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Bibliography:   Weinberg, Hesperia 1948, 221, no. D40; Corinth 7.2, no. 54.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 5443
Image: bw 8484