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PC 46: Late Geometric or Early Protocorinthian linear kotyle. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Late Geometric or Early Protocorinthian linear kotyle
- Date
- 720–700 BC, Lydian
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P60.107
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Pottery
- Pottery Shape
- Kotyle
- Pottery Ware
- Corinthian, Corinthian Geometric, Protocorinthian
- Pottery Attribution
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- Locus
- PC Zone 2
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *89
- Findspot
- Zone 2 *89.00 ~ From the burned area between levels II and III.
- Description
Linear kotyle with buff fabric and eggshell thin walls. Vertical rim with a tapering lip. Exterior decoration consists of two narrow bands along the rim with a series of short vertical lines in groups of five in the handle zone, punctuated by opposed triangles. There are twenty-four thin horizontal lines on the body. A stump of a horizontal loop handle remains. Small ring foot with a glazed black interior. Towards the base of the cup, black glaze, however leaving three reserved bands with narrow black bands within. Interior, reserved rim with a narrow black band. The remainder glazed black.
Early Protocorinthian, 720–700 BC
- Dimensions
- H. of largest fragment 0.047, W. 0.029, Th. 0.0015.
- Comments
- See Also
- See also: M10 Cat. Cor 4
- Bibliography
- Hanfmann, “Sardis 1960” p. 22, fig. 9; Sardis M10, Cat. Cor. 4.
- Author
- NHR