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Overview of fragments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Fragments B (left) and C (right), joined (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Corinthian Transitional Linear Kotyle Fragments
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 52
- Date
- Ca. 630-615 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.633bc
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian Transitional
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W23 / S98 - S103 to *96.3
- Findspot
- probably intrusive
- Description
- Two fragments, probably from the same kotyle, but not joining. Exterior: two thin horizontal lines at the rim. In the handle frieze are eleven vertical bars. Their lower ends are hooked and touch one another. Below is a series of horizontal lines and the tip of a single ray that reaches up to touch the third horizontal line. Interior glazed. Glaze: fired to red on interior and exterior. Clay: fine, hard, and smooth. Munsell no. 7.5 YR 7/4 (pink). Several other wall fragments from linear kotylai (LPC/TR; not catalogued) were found in the same area and on about the same level at HoB. They were also fired to orange-red for the glaze and pink for the clay. The joined hooks in the handle zone of Cor 52 suggest a date in TR, when the sigmas usually found in the handle friezes of PC kotylai disintegrate to quick dashes and hooks (supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 14; introduction to "Middle Corinthian," 50).
- Dimensions
- B: P.H. 0.026; P.W. 0.021. C: P.H. 0.020; P.W. 0.027
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS