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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FS 40 | | Title: | | LIGHT-ON-DARK SIMA | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FS | | Object Number: | | 40 | | Description: | | Large-scale sima with flat cyma reversa, above which outset moulding - either cavetto or cyma reversa missing crown. Top surface flat. At rt. part of overlapping joint with front flange broken away, Th. 00.041, back half 00.030-00.032 thick. | | Decoration: | | Reserved on black background: anthemion with 11-petal palmette outlined in broad careless brush strokes, central petal pointed, others rounded in broad careless brush strokes, central petal pointed, others rounded and drooping; flower with notched petals turning over and painted red where back shows. On crown: inverted eggs (?) with red centers, double black outline against reserved ground. Top and back slipped. Cf. FS-XXXX-51. | | Material: | | Coarse pinkish-buff clay with coarse to fine red mudstone inclusions, dense admixture. Fine slip. | | Munsell Color: | | Between 7.5YR 7/6 and 5YR 7/6 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper two-thirds of face with lower half crowning moulding, top and back; broken left end. Face partly defaced. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.19 L00.25 | | Period: | | 4th c. B.C. | | Chronology: | | or later | | Context: | | , Provenance unknown | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Corinth IV.1 P71 S40 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Basket: , Provenance unknown
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