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Overview of rim sherd. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Late Protocorinthian Linear Kotyle Fragment
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 26
- Date
- Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P65.064
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Late Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W14 - W15 / S110.50 - S115 *98.96
- Description
- Probably early in LPC. Rim fragment. Exterior: two horizontal lines near the edge of the rim; a series of ten sigma-shaped wiggles in the handle zone; and horizontal lines (four preserved) on the upper body. A smudge of glaze appears above the wiggles. Interior: a single line of glaze in the reserved area near the rim. Glaze: dark brown on the wiggles and on the top line of the rim; elsewhere reddish brown. Clay: hard and fine, fired to yellow-beige on the exterior, reddish orange on the interior. Munsell nos.: exterior, 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown); interior, 5 YR 7/6 (reddish yellow).
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.026; diam. 0.12; Th. 0.002
- Comments
- Cf. Anderson, “Old Smyrna” 141, pl. 21, no. 25. On the deterioration of the sigma, supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 12, 15. On the effects of firing on clay and glaze, supra, "Clay," 16-17 and n. 3; see also Johnston, “Pottery Practices” 82--94. See Cor 50.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS