Corinth Object: FS 2012 1 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FS 2012 1 | | Title: | | LATERAL SIMA | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FS | | Year: | | 2012 | | Object Number: | | 1 | | Description: | | Sima with projecting bottom fascia, 0.025 high, surmounted by moulded vertical face, 0.097 preserved height. Moulded face decorated with a fluted stalk, curving around volute; volute of two smooth coils. Similar to FS-1048 (Bookidis & Stroud 1997, Corinth 18.3, cat. 39). | | Decoration: | | Blue paint preserved on fluted stalk and flat background of moulded, vertical surface; red paint preserved at bottom of moulded, vertical surface. | | Material: | | Coarse pink clay with abundant medium to very large platy reddish yellow inclusions, frequent small gray platy inclusions, and abundant small to very large platy voids, | | Munsell Color: | | Core: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink); Surface: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of bottom edge and broken on all edges; traces of cream slip, red and blue paint. Very fragile, very many chips missing. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H. 0.111, L. 0.118, D. 0.068 | | Period: | | Roman | | Chronology: | | Based on comparanda | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context: | | Nezi Field, context 838 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Nezi Field
Image: digital 2013 0023
Basket: Nezi Field, context 838
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