Middle Corinthian Kotyle Fragment
- Date
- Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P62.421
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *86.4
- Findspot
- Area 2, sandy fill
- Description
Fragment from the rim and body. Animal frieze. A single line of glaze appears on the rim. Below, in the handle zone, is a series of vertical bars, and below these, two horizontal lines. In the belly frieze, an animal, perhaps a feline, walks to the left. Only the upper portion of the back and a part of the shoulder remain. The shoulder is defined by three incised lines. Five curved incisions define the ribs. Purplish red is added on the neck and between the ribs. Incised blob fillers appear in the field. The incisions are quickly and carelessly executed. Glaze: medium brown to black, glossy but worn in places. Clay: smooth, fine, and somewhat powdery. Yellow-buff. Munsell no. 10 YR 8/3 (very pale brown).
Possibly from the same kotyle as Cor 130, a base.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.035; diam. 0.10; Th. 0.002
- Comments
- Cf. Tocra I, pl. 23, nos. 320, 325, kotylai with a similar type of animal in the friezes, dated MC; CVA France 9, Louvre 6, III.C.a., pl. 7, figs. 1--3 (Fr. 391), a skyphos from Corinth (inv. no. N 3091).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS