• m10-cor-104-10
    Profile of base. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-104-20
    View of three joined fragments from the base. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-104-30
    Drawing: profile. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Early Corinthian Kotyle Base Fragments

Date
Ca. 620-590 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P63.352
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Early Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W2.00 - W10.00 / S117.00 - S123.00 *100.00 - 99.50
Findspot
A: HoB W 5.00--7.00/S 110.00--115.00 *100.00--*99.50. B: HoB W 2.00--10.00/S 117.00--123.00 *100.20--*99.80
Description

Three joined fragments from the base, preserved from the foot to the band above the rays and forming most of the foot ring. Tall rays of medium thickness spring from a thin line of glaze just above the join of the foot. In one of the interstices, a large squiggle, or corkscrew, descends nearly to the base line. Above the rays is a wide band of glaze. Beneath the rays on the slant of the foot proper is a reserved line, followed by another wide band of glaze and another reserved area. On the underside of the foot, the resting surface is reserved. There is a band of glaze on the slope of the foot ring, and a smaller circle of glaze near the center of the convex area. Glaze: glossy; exterior, dark chocolate brown; interior, chocolate brown. Clay: hard and fine. Munsell no. 10 YR between 8/4 and 7/3 (very pale brown).

The fragments were scattered but clearly belonged to the same vessel and were joined in 1975. Not only the corkscrew (or squiggle) between the rays, but also the remainder of the preserved decoration, are paralleled in a glazed kotyle from Corinth with a goose in added white.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.039; diam. of foot 0.05; Th. of wall 0.004
Comments
Cf. Corinth VII:1, pl. 35, no. 261 (inv. no. C-23-98); also Ephesos XII:1, 66, K269, pl. 32, dated EC.
See Also
Bibliography
Author
JS