Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FS 17 | |
Title: | LIGHT-ON-DARK SIMA | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FS | |
Object Number: | 17 | |
Description: | Sima with fascia at base, H00.045, above which outset cyma reversa. | |
Decoration: | All surfaces well slipped. Soffit: broad band 00.03 m. wide of red-brown glaze. Face: fascia: maeander type IIA in light-on-dark, with red outline around checkerboard. Cyma: light-on-dark anthemion of which scroll beneath palmette, oval hear with red center, and bit of lowerst lt. petal preserved. On soffit behind border rasp-like tooling. | |
Material: | Buff clay, fired pale pink at core, with moderate admixture of fine to coarser (to 3mm) black inclusions. Fine slip. | |
Munsell Color: | Core: between 7.5YR 7/4 and 10YR 7/4, Slip 5Y 7.5/3 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving bottom of sima preserving soffit, base moulding, start of cyma face; broken above, either end. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.094 L00.140 | |
Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
Area: | Lechaion Road | |
Context: | Lechaion Road, Written in pencil: back of shops - (?) (on Lechaio | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 P68 S17 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Lechaion Road Basket: Lechaion Road, Written in pencil: back of shops - (?) (on Lechaio |