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    HoB 467: Protocorinthian kotyle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Protocorinthian kotyle

Date
Ca. 650–630 BC, Lydian
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
P66.050
Material
Ceramic
Object Type
Pottery
Pottery Shape
Kotyle
Pottery Ware
Corinthian, Protocorinthian
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
W16-20 / S91-97 *98.2-98; W17–20 / S90–92 *98.5–98.2; W16–19 / S90–95 *98.3–98
Description

Protocorinthian. Nine joining and nonjoining fragments from rim to lower body, including one handle and the stub of the other. Brown on burnished clay. Plain rim; deep bowl; loop handles. Exterior, two horizontal lines along rim; traces of a single horizontal line over both handles. Handle zone: a reserved band with a series of short vertical lines on each side of a row of dots on each face of the kotyle; below the handle until mid-bowl, fifteen horizontal lines; a reserved band. Lower body, a double horizontal line forming the upper border of rays (upper tips are preserved). Interior, a single horizontal line along rim in a reserved band; the rest painted.

Schaeffer (Sardis M10, cat. Cor 75) suggests a date of 620–610 BC; Kathleen Lynch (personal communication, 2017) suggests a date in Late Protocorinthian, ca. 650–630 BC.

Dimensions
H. 0.06, Diam. of rim 0.09, Th. 0.002.
Comments
See Also
See also: M10 Cat. Cor 75.
Bibliography
Sardis M10, cat. Cor 75.
Author
GGD