Corinth Object: C 1940 305
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   C 1940 305
Title:   EARLY CORINTHIAN KOTYLE BY THE PLUS PAINTER
Category Code:   C
Year:   1940
Object Number:   305
Description:   Kotyle with slightly incurving rim.
Decoration:   Black figure style. One horizontal glazed line below lip; vertical wavy lines at rim. Animal frieze bounded above by a horizontal line: lion to r., rear of a feline (lion?) to r. Applied purple on the lion's mane and on the haunch of feline. Filling ornament: unincised blobs. Interior painted solid except for the reserved lip.
Material:   Well-compacted buff clay. Black paint and applied purple.
Munsell Color:   10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown)
Condition:   Fragment. Three joining fragments preserving part of rim and upper-body.
Manufacture:   WM
Period:   Early Corinthian (620/615-595/590)
Provenance:   Corinth
Findspot Description:   New Museum East. Well 1940-2.
Bibliography:   Weinberg, Hesperia Suppl. 28, 16, no. 46; Amyx, CVP, 134, no. 15.
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece