• m10-cor-31-10
    Overview of rim sherd. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-31-20
    Drawing. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Late Protocorinthian Glazed Kotyle Fragment

Date
Ca. 650-630 BC., Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P65.121
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Late Protocorinthian
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
B-Grid Coordinates
W1.75 - W8 / S95 - S99 to *98.40
Findspot
in gravel layer
Description

Probably LPC. A large portion of the kotyle is preserved, from the lip to just above the foot. Solid glaze from the lip to the rays with thin bands of added color: two at the base of the handle zone, one white and one red; one white above the rays. The rays are medium in thickness and height and are placed fairly close together. Interior: glazed, but with a line of added white near the lip. Glaze: on the exterior, glossy black on the rim to dark brown near the rays. The glaze of the rays is badly worn. On the interior, dark to medium brown, partially worn. Clay: fine, smooth, and hard. Yellow-beige. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).

Two other very small uninventoried fragments (uninv. HoB 3/vii/66 and uninv. HoB 19/vii/65) of similar glazed kotylai but belonging to separate vessels were found at, respectively, HoB W 5.00--8.00/S 103.00--106.00 *97.50--*97.20 and HoB W 8.00--13.00/S 110.00--115.00 *98.65, on floor. The type, with added color and rays placed fairly close together, probably dates to the end of LPC.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.062; P.W. 0.08; Th. 0.002
Comments
Cf. Perachora II, 70, nos. 590, 591, glazed kotylai with lines of added color. EC examples have shorter rays and a larger area of solid glaze than Cor 31 (Cor 73 and Corinth VII:1, pl. 36).
See Also
Bibliography
Author
JS