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HoB 349: Corinthian Geometric linear kotyle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Corinthian Geometric linear kotyle
- Date
- Ca. 740–730 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P66.039
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB
- Locus
- HoB Lydian III - Central Area
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W2 - W6 / S87 - S91 *96.6
- Findspot
- W2-6 / S87-91 *96.6
- Description
- Fragment from the rim of a kotyle, with a portion of the handle frieze. Clay is hard, fine, and smooth. Exterior: a line of glaze on top of the lip and two horizontal lines of glaze below. In the handle frieze, vertical lines flank two opposed triangles (this familiar pattern is variously referred to in the literature as either “bar and butterfly” or “double axe”) with vertical lines at left and right. Portions of two vertical lines preserved on the left, ten on the right. Three horizontal lines below the handle frieze. Interior, a reserved line near the rim; remainder of the interior is glazed dark brown. Coldstream (private correspondence, February 1990) placed the piece “comfortably within LG.” Coldstream dates LG between 750 and 720 (Coldstream, GGP, p. 237). Therefore the Sardis rim fragment probably dates ca. 740–730.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.043, Diam. 0.14, Th. 0.003.
- Comments
- See Also
- See also: M10 Cat. Cor 2.
- Bibliography
- Sardis M10, Cat. Cor. 2.
- Author
- AR