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    HoB 692: Imitation of a Protocorinthian kotyle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Imitation of a Protocorinthian kotyle

Date
Context: later 7th to mid-6th c BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P62.464
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Lydian Painted - Corinthianizing
Pottery Attribution
Site
Sardis
Sector
HoB
Trench
HoB
Locus
HoB Lydian I-II - Above the Floor Near the Postholes at *98.4
B-Grid Coordinates
W20 / S100 *98.8
Findspot
W20 / S100 *98.8
Description
Lydian imitation of a late Protocorinthian linear kotyle. Fourteen joining fragments of rim, body, base and handle (stumps of one handle preserved). Plain rim; deep bowl; ring base; loop handles. Red to dark paint. Exterior, horizontal band along rim; metopal decoration on handle frieze: seven vertical lines alternating with three horizontal but curved rows of dots; three broad horizontal bands below handle area; standing rays rising above a band on base; handle stumps painted. Interior, painted red.
Dimensions
H. 0.095, Diam. of rim 0.12, Diam. of base 0.042, Th. 0.004.
Comments
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Author
GGD