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View of rim sherd with handle and another body sherd. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Drawing: profile. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Middle Protocorinthian Linear Kotyle Fragments
- Date
- Ca. 670-650 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.634
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W23 / S98 - S103 to *96.3
- Description
Probably early in MPC-II. Five fragments of a linear kotyle, four joined. The kotyle is preserved from the lip to near the foot. Exterior: a single horizontal line of glaze on the handle. At the top of the rim, a single worn horizontal line frames the series of vertical bars in the handle frieze. Some of these cross over into the first of the fifteen horizontal lines below. These lines cover only one-third of the body. The tall, slender rays do not quite touch the lowest of the lines. Interior: completely glazed, with no area of reserve near the lip. Glaze: reddish brown to dark brown, streaky in the rays and worn on the interior. Clay: fine, smooth, and hard. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
Found in the same area as Cor 21. Although similar, Cor 13 is more clumsily executed. The fact that the rays do not quite touch the horizontal lines and the lines cover only a third of the body suggests a date early in MPC-II (supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 13-14).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.069; diam. 0.12; Th. 0.003
- Comments
- Cf. Brokaw, “PC Kotyle” 53, fig. 5 (Tomba della Nave, Cerveteri Mus.), for a kotyle with wirebirds in the handle frieze and rays that do not touch the horizontal lines; ibid., 53, fig. 24 (Tomba della Nave, Cerveteri Mus.), for a pointed kotyle dated MPC-I with sigmas in the handle frieze and horizontal lines that cover only one-third of the body; Burr, “Geometric House” 567, fig. 26, no. 106, for a kotyle with tall, thin rays and with deteriorated wirebird wiggles in the handle zone. The birds help date it to the experimental period from the end of EPC through MPC-I. The example at Sardis should be dated slightly later than any of these since the rays are thinner and placed further apart.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS