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408 MARIO IOZZO reddish yellow slip (5YR 7/8). The lower part of the stand without the base is preserved in 14 joining fragments; surface eroded with some areas of chipping. Hollow, cylindrical stand, slightly splayed at the bottom, with flutes bordered by thick arrises with a groove at the center. On the lower ends of the arrises are brown brushstrokes, perhaps trying to simulate the lower curves of the flutes. Findspot: Forum Southwest.232 The fragments were found in the destruction levels of the "Centaur Bath", in a context dated to the first half of the 4th century (Lot 76-75). The fragments must fit chro- nologically in the period between the time of con- struction of the building (end of the 5th century) and its destruction during the third quarter of the 4th century. 400-350 B.C. 117. Fragmentary stand P1. 81 C-68-346. H. 0.136, W. 0.18, rest. D. 0.20, Th. 0.03; W. of flutes 0.05. Porous, reddish yellow clay (5YR 7/6) with predominantly red inclusions; thick, pink slip (7.5YR 7/4). About one half of the original circumference with the beginning of the base is preserved in six joining fragments; chipped surface. Hollow, cylindrical stand, slightly splayed at the bottom. The arrises have a center groove stopped at the base; the lower curve of the flutes is simulated with brown brushstrokes forming the ends of the arrises. A partially painted cavetto constitutes the connection between the stand and the base. Findspot unknown. 5th or 4th century B.C. 118. Stand fragment Fig. 6, P1. 81 KP 2543. H. 0.045, W. 0.125, rest. D. 0.28, Th. 0.02; W. of flutes 0.04. Corinth XV, iii, no. 2170, p. 342, pl. 76. Compact, reddish yellow clay (5YR 7/6) with a very few red inclusions; thick, reddish yellow slip (7.5YR 7/6). A small part of the original circumference with the beginning of the base is preserved. Surface eroded with some areas of incrustation. Lower part of hollow, cylindrical stand slightly splayed at the bottom with a tall upright half-round molding at the point of connection to the base; the flutes are bordered by arrises truncated at the base. Wide bands, alternately dark red and brown, cover the ends of the arrises; the cavetto is partially painted brown. Findspot: Potters' Quarter, Court of the Terracotta Factory.233 The fragment was found in a context closed in the third quarter of the 4th century B.C. 119. Fragmentary stand P1. 81 CP-3066. H. 0.286, rest. D. 0.20, Th. 0.03; W. of flutes 0.055. Very impure, reddish yellow clay (7.5YR 7/6) with predominantly red inclusions; thick layer of very pale brown slip (1OYR 8/4). A good part of the stand is preserved in 16 joining fragments; surface eroded with wide areas of chipping and incrustation. Traces of scorching on the inside. Hollow, cylindrical stand with wide flutes bordered by thick arrises which are marked by a groove. The flutes are interrupted above by a collar with a flat profile, widening slightly toward the top, which is placed at the juncture of the stand and the bowl. The lower part of the collar is painted with a brown band. Findspot unknown. 5th or 4th century B.C. 120. Base fragment P1. 82 KN 162. H. 0.165, W. 0.275. Plinth: H. 0.068, Th. 0.058; W. of base support 0.033. Stand: rest. D. 0.24. Concentric-chevron stamp: H. 0.014, W. 0.011. Stamp of concentric chevrons with curled apexes: H. 0.017, W. 0.011. Spiral stamp: H. 0.01. Weinberg, 1954, pp. 124, 127-129, note 121, pl. 30:f, fig. 1; Anderson, p. 90, no. 9.0. Impure, very pale brown clay (1OYR 8/4) with predominantly gray inclusions and white grains; fine, pale yellow slip (2.5Y 8/4). About one fourth of the base is preserved; very eroded, chipped surface. Slightly worn matrixes. 232 For the 1976 excavations in the southwest area of the Forum, see Williams, 1979. 233 For the entire complex, which flourished for approximately two centuries and which was destroyed, perhaps by an earthquake, sometime during the last decades of the 4th century B.C. (the period during which the entire Potters' Quarter was probably abandoned), see Corinth XV, i, pp. 34-49. For a possible date for the destruction of the Terracotta Factory, see Corinth VII, iii, pp. 202-203, no. 18.
Hollow, cylindrical stand, of which only the beginning remains, on a circular base with a carinated profile with an inverted echinus; the profile tapers slightly toward the bottom. Below, a tall square plinth with straight base support with rounded edges. On the base is stamped a decoration in horizontal registers: near the outer edge is a clockwise triple running spiral made with a cylinder matrix; impressed above is a series of inverted concentric chevrons with the apexes curling to the right; along the inner edge and near the juncture with the stand is an unevenly spaced impression of another row of concentric chevrons. Findspot: Potters' Quarter, deposit south of the Terracotta Factory.234 The lower chronological limit for the Terracotta Factory goes into the third quarter of the 4th century B.C., but the upper limit is not clear. Weinberg, on the basis of a typological examination and a stylistic analysis of the decorative elements, proposes dating the base to the beginning of the 6th century. The motif of the running spiral is most frequently encountered in Peloponnesian circles,235 especially those under Corinthian influence and particularly during the first half of the 6th century.236 On the other hand, although the concentric CORINTHIAN BASINS ON HIGH STANDS 409 chevrons point generically to the 6th century,237 those with curling apexes are not very different from painted examples appearing on Protocorinthian pottery of the 7th century B.C.238 They can, in fact, be considered to be a plastic translation of the painted ornament, which would not lower the date any later than the first quarter of the 6th century. An identical decoration is painted on a large Laconian acroterial disk from Olympia, dated 600 B.C. Analo- gous impressions are found on a fragment of a terracotta support from Gela as well as on a rectangular handle from Perachora.239 600-575 B.C. 121. Base fragment Pl. 82 C-65-324. H. 0.13, W. 0.275. Plinth: H. 0.08, Th. 0.032; W. of base support 0.025. Base: rest. D. 0.24, Th. 0.04. Impure, pink clay (7.5YR 8/4) with predominantly red inclusions and particles; thin layer of the same pink-colored slip. About one fourth of the base is preserved; surface eroded with wide areas of chipping. High, square plinth with flat bearing surface and edges; above, a circular base with a carinated profile, 234 Since the finds have not been precisely assigned to the different sectors of the Terracotta Factory, see Corinth XV, i, pp. 34-49, and esp. p. 45; Corinth XV, ii, pp. 23-24, nos. 8, 9; Corinth VII, iii, pp. 202-203, no. 18. 235 N. Bonacasa, "Pinakes fittili di Himera," ASAtene 45-46, 1967-1968, pp. 316-317, figs. 2 and 4; Agora XII, no. 1854, p. 366, pl. 89; see also pl. 65 for the spiral on pithoi; M. Cygielman, "Un sostegno fittile da Crotone," Klearchos 19, 1977, pp. 41-42; Jozzo, nos. 12 and 15, pls. XXXVI:d, XXXVII:c; P. Orlandini, "Perirrhanterion fittile arcaico con decorazione a rilievo degli scavi dell'Incoronata," Attivita archeologica in Basilicata 1964-1977. Scritti in onore di D. Adamesteanu, Matera 1980, p. 175, pl. II, which furnishes us with one of the earliest examples in the Corinthian sphere (third quarter of the 7th century B.C.); M. Jozzo, "Sostegni fittili a rilievo da Crotone," Studi e Materiali, forthcoming; cf. also W. W. Rudolph, "HP 2310: A Lakonian Kylix from Halieis," Hesperia 45, 1976 (pp. 240-252), pp. 246-247, fig. 2. 236 In addition to the examples reported by Weinberg, see Jozzo, nos. 7 and 13, pls. XXXV:b, XXXVII:a. Cf. also the almost completely restored perirrhanterion from the Sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia: G. Daux, "Chronique des fouilles en Grece en 1959," BCH 84, 1960, p. 671, fig. 1; 0. Broneer, "The Isthmian Sanctuary," ALAT 16, 1960, B' (1962), p. 88, pl. 66:e; idem (footnote 218), p. 22, pl. 10:a, d. Cf. also 74 and 78-80. 237 In this period the greatest number of instances of the composite spiral occurs, with or without fill elements in the resulting spaces (little bosses, palmettes), following a route through the intermediary of Corinthian metalwork from the Ionian figurative repertoire: Schafer (footnote 158 above), pp. 58ff. Orlandini (footnote 235 above), pp. 190-192. For the popularity which the spiral motif enjoyed in terracotta architectural decoration, see Bonacasa (footnote 235 above), pp. 316, notes 6-8, p. 317, notes 1, 2, fig. 9 (a pinax from Metapontion). 238 Corinth VII, i, pp. 37-38, where there is a discussion of the motif under no. 116; see also Rudolph (footnote 235 above), pp. 245-246, fig. 2. For the same motif on Orientalizing pithoi from Rhodes, see Schafer (footnote 158 above), pp. 59-60, fig. III:2. 239 Olympia II (footnote 223 above), p. 115; Mallwitz and Herrmann (footnote 16 above), p. 145, pl. 98: 1; P. Orsi, "Gela. Scavi del 1900-1905," MonAnt 17, 1906, col. 656, fig. 477; Perachora II, p. 322, no. 3361 A, pl. 127.
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