Middle Corinthian Kotyle Fragment

Date
Ca. 595-570 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P96.042
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Middle Corinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
PN
Trench
PN
B-Grid Coordinates
ca. *86.4
Findspot
Area 2, sandy fill; found in 1962
Description

The foot and a portion of the lower wall from a large kotyle. The lower portions of a series of thin wobbly rays with the bases placed fairly close together. The rays spring from a solid band of glaze covering both the join of the foot and the foot proper. The rim of the foot is reserved, as is the resting surface. On the underside of the foot, there is a band of glaze on the slope and two concentric circles in the center of the convex area; the circles are carelessly executed. Interior glazed. Glaze: dark brown. Clay: smooth, hard, and fairly fine. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).

The foot was found in the same area as Cor 129, a kotyle rim of MC date, and may belong with it. The thinness of the rays, their narrow spacing and careless execution suggest an MC date for this fragment as well.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.018; diam. of foot 0.047; Th. 0.004
Comments
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Author
JS