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    Overview of two joined fragments. (©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.
P65.068
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Middle Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W20 - W25 / S110 - S115 to *98.4
Findspot
on floor
Description
Probably MPC-II. Two joined fragments of a small kotyle reaching from the bottom of the handle frieze to near the foot. Exterior: the lower ends of the two vertical lines preserved in the handle zone cross over the first of fourteen horizontal lines on the body. The tip of a ray just touches the lowest of these lines. Interior glazed. Glaze: orange-red to chocolate brown, slightly uneven on the ray. Clay: hard, smooth, and fine. Munsell no. 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink). Found in the same area and on nearly the same level as Cor 16.
Dimensions
P.H. 0.053; P.W. 0.05; Th. 0.002.
Comments
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Author
JS