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Overview of body sherd. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Two Joined Fragments of a Middle Protocorinthian Linear Kotyle
Monograph 10: The Corinthian, Attic, and Lakonian Pottery from Sardis
(1997)
Cat. Cor 12
- Date
- Ca. 690-670 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P63.636
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Middle Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W20 - W23 / S98 - S103 to *96.3
- Description
- Probably MPC I. Two joining fragments reaching from lip to mid-body. Exterior: two horizontal lines near the rim frame a series of vertical bars and worm-shaped wiggles in the handle zone. Ten of the wiggles and the lower ends of three vertical bars remain. The bars meet but do not pass over the horizontal lines of the body. Fourteen of these lines, varying in width, are preserved on the upper body. Interior: a single line of glaze in the reserved area of the rim, otherwise glazed. Glaze: light brown and worn. Clay: hard, fine, and smooth. Beige in hue. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).The wiggle of the handle frieze is typical of the period of experimentation from the end of EPC through MPC-I (supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 12). Found in the same area and at the same general level as Cor 13.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.049; Th. 0.002
- Comments
- Cf. for the wiggle, Brokaw, “PC Kotyle” 51, fig. 3 (from Grave 47, Phaleron, Athens NM, found with a conical aryballos), late EPC to MPC-I; Burr, “Geometric House” 567, fig. 26, no. 107; Anderson, “Old Smyrna” 141 and pl. 21, no. 25. The absolute chronology in the latter case was published early in the process of sorting the PC linear material and is too high (supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 9 and n. 37; 12 and n. 70).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- JS