Corinth Object: FS 37
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   FS 37
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SIMA
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   FS
Object Number:   37
Description:   Sima with fascia at base, deeply inset on cyma reversa, face of which broken away. Top surface sloping slightly towards back. Lt. end possibly cut with a knife, poss. as anathyrosis, but front edge worn.
Decoration:   Soffit: large astragalos, reserved on black ground, W00.079, with red border for at least 00.016 m. Fascia: maeander type IIA; Cyma: reserved tendril on black ground, rest missing.
Material:   Coarse buff clay fired to light pink at core, with dense admixture of coarse (to 5 m.) black, few red mudstone inclusions.
Munsell Color:   10YR 8/3 surface
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving soffit to top surface; broken away above fascia, at right; possibly cut at left.
Dimensions Actual:   H00.163 H00.045-00.055 (fascia)
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.170
Period:   Classical
Context:   , Provenance unknown
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth IV.1 P70 S37
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Basket: , Provenance unknown