• m10-cor-75-10
    Overview of fragments. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
  • m10-cor-75-20
    Drawing: profile. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Corinthian Transitional Linear Kotyle Fragments

Date
Ca. 630-590 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P66.050
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Corinthian Transitional
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian II - Building J
B-Grid Coordinates
W16 - W20 / S91 - S97 *98.2 - 98
Findspot
Scattered: HoB W 17.00 20.00/S 90.00 92.00 *98.50 *98.20; HoB W 16.00 20.00/S 91.00 97.00 *98.20 *98.00, interior of Building G, floor; HoB W 16.00 19.00/S 90.00 95.00 *98.30 *98.00.
Description

Late in TR or early in EC. Nine fragments, some of them joined, composing most of a linear kotyle. One handle is fully preserved, as is the stub of the other handle. The foot is missing. Exterior: a single line of glaze on the preserved handle and two horizontal lines on the rim. Seventeen of the remaining vertical bars flank one side of the open area of the handle frieze. One open area is fully preserved and shows eighteen dabs. Thirteen thin horizontal lines on the upper body are followed by a single wide band of reserve, below which is a band of glaze. The upper portions of six rays are preserved near the base, their tips overlapping the band of glaze above. Interior: a single line of glaze in the reserved band of the rim; otherwise glazed. Glaze: worn. One piece shows signs of burning. Clay: fine and hard. Munsell no. 10 YR 8/4 (very pale brown); burnt area, 10 YR 6/1 (gray).

This is one of the few Corinthian vases found at Sardis that is nearly complete. Its style is very similar to that of Cor 74, dated TR; it also resembles Cor 77, dating late in TR or early in EC. These kotylai were found at HoB in areas and on levels comparable to other Corinthian pottery dating from TR to early EC. On the decoration of the frieze, supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 15.

Dimensions
P.H. 0.065; diam. of rim 0.09; Th. of rim 0.002; of wall 0.003
Comments
See Also
See also: R8, No. HoB 467
Bibliography
Author
JS