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Overview of rim 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 23
- Date
- Ca. 670-650 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P70.031
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W236.5 - W239 / S350 - S352 *87.2 - 86.7
- Description
Probably MPC-II. Rim fragment. Exterior: two horizontal lines at the rim. Six tight sigmas, facing to left, remain in the handle frieze. Two horizontal lines are preserved below. Interior: a single unbroken band of reserve at the lip; otherwise glazed. Glaze: reddish brown on interior and exterior. Clay: hard and fine. Munsell no. 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink).
The sigma is typical of MPC. This piece was found in a mixed context.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.021; P.W. 0.019; Th. 0.003
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 12, 14. Cf. two fragments with very similar sigmas and unbroken bands of reserve on the interior in the Young Collection, Columbia University, Jaunzems, nos. 1, 4; Brokaw, “PC Kotyle” fig. 4 (Tomba della Nave, Cerveteri Mus.), pointed kotyle, probably near the end of MPC-I.
- Author
- JS