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    Overview of wall fragment. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Middle Corinthian Kotyle Fragment

Date
Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P61.145
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Middle Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W10 - W15 / S90 - S95 *99.80
Description

Small wall fragment. Animal frieze. The ends of a series of vertical bars appear above the ear of the panther in the handle zone (compare Cor 129). Below the bars are two glazed lines. Beneath these, in the belly frieze, is a panther facing to right, preserved from his head to his upper shoulder. The incisions are very quick and careless: a single arc for the inner cheek; two small, irregularly shaped eyes; a series of vertical lines across the cheek; and two large arcs for the shoulder. The head is no more than a general circle with no indication of the muzzle. The eyes are very low in the head, and the ear very large, giving the panther an almost comical expression.

Added red is applied on the shoulder of the panther. A small blob of red has been dropped accidentally on his neck. A blob filler appears above the panther's neck. Glaze: black and glossy. Clay: hard, smooth, and fine, with faceted breaks. Munsell no. 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown).

Dimensions
P.H. 0.047, P.W. 0.046, Th. 0.004
Comments
Cf. Lucy Shoe, "A Box of Antiquities from Corinth," Hesperia 1 (1932) fig. 13, a kylix dated to the second quarter of the 6th C.; Tocra I, pl. 23, nos. 314, 315, 325. For a similarly careless treatment of the face, see CVA USA 5, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley 1, III.C., pl. 5, no. 9, dated "MC (?)."
See Also
Bibliography
Published: Schaeffer, Panthers 122 and fig. 6.
Author
JS