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Overview of body sherd. (©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 22
- Date
- Ca. 670-650 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P96.008
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W2 - W8 / S91 - S96 to *97.5
- Findspot
- found in 1965
- Description
- Probably MPC-II. Rim fragment. Exterior: two thin horizontal lines near the rim. Three tight sigmas, facing to right, are preserved in the handle zone. These are flanked by four vertical bars with hooks on the bottom. Three horizontal lines remain on the upper body. Interior glazed. Glaze fired to orange-red on both the interior and the exterior. Clay: fine and slightly powdery. Pink in hue with a creamy exterior. Munsell nos.: body, between 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink) and 5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow); exterior, 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.021; P.W. 0.023; Th. 0.002
- Comments
- Cf. Brokaw, “PC Kotyle” 52, fig. 4, a pointed kotyle dated MPC-I.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 12, 14.
- Author
- JS