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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
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 17
- Date
- Ca. 670-650 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.577
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian I - South of Building C
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W23 / S102 - S104 *98.5 - 98.2
- Description
Probably MPC-II. A handle with part of the rim and upper body. Exterior: a single thick line of glaze on the handle. Two horizontal lines at the top of the rim. The top line is thicker than the one below it. A series of seven vertical lines remains in the handle frieze to the left of the handle. On the upper body are eight horizontal lines. The vertical lines do not impinge on the horizontal lines. Interior: a single line of reserve near the top of the rim; otherwise glazed. Glaze: chocolate brown. Clay: hard, smooth, and fine. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).
Found not far from and on a similar level as fragments from other linear kotylai. See Cor 16, Cor 19
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.025; P.W. 0.051; est. diam. 0.095
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS