• m10-cor-129-10
    Overview of rim 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.
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