Corinth Object: FS 466
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   FS 466
Title:   SIMA
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   FS
Object Number:   466
Description:   Top of sima, rising from vertical to cavetto, horizontal top. Cavetto with Doric leaf with double outlines reserved. On flat band above cavetto, top edge reserved as horizontal band, purple band below and two concentric arcs pendant reserved therein. Similar to FS 467.
Material:   Clay: light yellow with particles, cream slip, purple paint.
Condition:   Fragment. All sides broken, preserving some of front face, top, some of back surface.
Dimensions Actual:   H. of top band 0.033
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.12
H. 0.12
Period:   Archaic (7th-6th c.)
Chronology:   6th c. BC
Area:   Potters' Quarter
Context:   NB102 P182
Bibliography:   Stillwell, Corinth XV, ii, pp. 280-291, pl. 58.; Cited Winter Archterr
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Stillwell, Corinth 15:2, 1952
Publication: Winter, Greek Architectural Terracottas: ... 1994
Monument: Potters' Quarter
Image: bw 5526
Image: bw 8660
Basket: NB102 P182
Notebook Page: NB 108, spread 92 (pp. 182 - 183)