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    Overview of rim sherd with handle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Middle Protocorinthian Linear Kotyle Fragment

Date
Ca. 670-650 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P64.153
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Middle Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W24 - W25 / S115 - S119 *98.70 - 98.20
Description

Probably MPC-II. A handle with a small part of the surrounding rim and upper body. Exterior: a single, thick horizontal line of glaze on the handle extends across the first vertical bar of the frieze area. Two horizontal lines decorate the rim. Portions of six vertical bars, with hooks at the bottom, are preserved in the handle frieze. The bars stay within the framing horizontal lines. Eighteen horizontal lines remain on the body. Interior: a single reserved line near the top of the rim; otherwise glazed. Glaze: exterior, dark brown to black; interior, dark brown and fairly evenly applied. Clay: hard and fine. Yellowish in hue. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).

Found in nearly the same area and on a similar level as fragments from other linear kotylai. See Cor 17, Cor 19

Dimensions
P.H. 0.040; P.W. 0.064; Th. 0.0025
Comments
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Author
JS