Late in LG or early in EPC. A fragment from the handle frieze. Exterior: a line of glaze appears near the rim. Below, in the frieze, a single heron faces to right beside three parallel zigzag lines. The heron's beak curves up and out to touch the uppermost of the lines. Originally there must have been at least one other bird confronting this heron across the zigzags. The heron has a reserved eye, a silhouette body forming a large S curve, a long tail that does not quite touch the ground, and two long straight legs. He lacks the double crest and branched feet typical of earlier LG herons. The right leg is thicker than the left, but the ends of both legs stand firmly on the topmost of the parallel lines that decorate the body of the kotyle. Three of these lines, varying in thickness, remain. Interior glazed, with no reserved line near the lip. Glaze: exterior, reddish brown to dark brown; interior, brown with reddish brown streaks. Clay: smooth and hard, with some air pockets. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).

This is the only certain example of a heron yet found at Sardis, although Cor 2 belongs to the heron type of LG. Cor 3 falls between Coldstream's LG and EPC types, the heron having lost the hatched body, claw foot, and long double crest of LG, but still retaining a profile eye, two legs, a fairly long tail, and a position next to a series of horizontal zigzag lines. Cor 3 should date to the transition from LG to EPC (supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 10-11).

Late in LG or early in EPC. A fragment from the handle frieze. Exterior: a line of glaze appears near the rim. Below, in the frieze, a single heron faces to right beside three parallel zigzag lines. The heron's beak curves up and out to touch the uppermost of the lines. Originally there must have been at least one other bird confronting this heron across the zigzags. The heron has a reserved eye, a silhouette body forming a large S curve, a long tail that does not quite touch the ground, and two long straight legs. He lacks the double crest and branched feet typical of earlier LG herons. The right leg is thicker than the left, but the ends of both legs stand firmly on the topmost of the parallel lines that decorate the body of the kotyle. Three of these lines, varying in thickness, remain. Interior glazed, with no reserved line near the lip. Glaze: exterior, reddish brown to dark brown; interior, brown with reddish brown streaks. Clay: smooth and hard, with some air pockets. Munsell no. 10 YR 7/4 (very pale brown).

This is the only certain example of a heron yet found at Sardis, although Cor 2 belongs to the heron type of LG. Cor 3 falls between Coldstream's LG and EPC types, the heron having lost the hatched body, claw foot, and long double crest of LG, but still retaining a profile eye, two legs, a fairly long tail, and a position next to a series of horizontal zigzag lines. Cor 3 should date to the transition from LG to EPC (supra, "Kotylai with Linear Decoration," 10-11).