| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 21 | |
| Title: | ARCHAIC SIMA, SO-CALLED MEGARIAN TYPE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 21 | |
| Description: | Sima with flat bottom, vertical face H. 0.17, crowned by heavy quarter-round H. 0.085 with second smaller quarter-round H. 0.038. Top flat. Rt. joint trimmed smoothly around large hole which passes horizontally through quarter-round D. 0.043. Projecting edges surrounding this. | |
| Decoration: | Thin slip front, top and back faces. Front face painted with black glaze, purple color considerably worn away: alternating and reversible lotus-palmette chain: 7-petal palmette with straight round petals, alternating black and purple or red-brown, central petal black; semi-circular heart which extends into apex of lotus tendrils. Lotus with widely spreading petals which touch above palmette, black petals, purple heart, below which reserved and red-brown (?) cross-bar, from which 2 fat tendrils curl out and turn under palmette. On upper moulding alternating reserved and glazed bands. | |
| Material: | Coarse yellow-buff clay with dense amount of fine to coarser (to 3mm.) black mudstone inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Ca. 2.5Y 7/3 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving complete height of sima face, part of right joint preserved; broken at juncture to pan, left side and partly along right and bottom. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.35, Th. lower half 0.054, Th. top 0.13 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.25 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Ca. mid 6th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Early Excavations | |
| Context: | Early Excavations, Provenance unknown | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1, p. 62; FD II (dated 540-530 B.C.); Roebuck, Hesperia 1990, p. 56; Cited Winter Archterr | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Hesperia 59:1, 1990 Publication: Winter, Greek Architectural Terracottas: ... 1994 Monument: Early Excavations Image: bw 1984 051 21 Image: bw 1984 051 22 |
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