• m10-cor-125-1
    Middle Corinthian Glazed Kotyle (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-125-10
    Overview of fragments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Middle Corinthian Glazed Kotyle Fragments

Date
Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P70.028
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Middle Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
W251 - W253 / S350 - S352 ca *87.3 - 87
Description

Ten fragments from a glazed kotyle, seven joining on the body, two on the rim. Exterior: on the lip is a single line of added red followed by a line of white. A dot rosette in added white, composed of a large central dot surrounded by numerous small dots, appears in the handle zone. Below this is a series of four lines alternating red and white. The body is covered with black glaze. Above the rays is a series of lines in added white and red as follows: white, red, black glaze; white, red, white, black glaze. The matchstick rays as the base are very thin and placed close together. Interior: thin lines of added red and white at the lip -- red, white, black glaze; red, black glaze, white. Otherwise glazed. Glaze: black, shiny, and evenly applied on the body; thinner on the rays, and therefore browner. Clay: hard and fine. Yellow. Munsell no. 10YR7/3 (very pale brown.)

Matchstick rays on glazed kotylai are typical of the MC period. Black-glazed kotylai with added lines of color begin in EC (see Corinth XIII, 106-10

Dimensions
Body:P.H. 0.055; P.W. 0.081; Th. 0.003. Rim: P.H.0.032; R W . 0.034; Th. 0.003
Comments
Cf. Corinth VII:1, pl. 43, no. 347, dated MC; 78, pl. 42, no. 342, early MC. For the polychromy, ibid., pl. 35, nos. 261, 263; pl. 36, no. 266, dated EC.
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Author
JS