Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FS 47 | |
Title: | LIGHT-ON-DARK SIMA | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FS | |
Object Number: | 47 | |
Description: | Light-on-Dark sima with cyma reversa profile, possible fascia crowning moulding. Top surface flat. | |
Decoration: | All surfaces slipped. In light on black ground is anthemion with 9-petal palmette with drooping petals, row of dots framing round heart. Elaborate lotus with 3 long petals with folded-over tips, elaborate calyx with folded tips with back surface painted red, outlining central part of calyx. | |
Material: | Yellow-buff coarse clay with dense amount of fine to few coarser black, red (2-4 mm.) inclusions, fine slip. | |
Munsell Color: | Between 10YR 8/3 and 2.5Y 8/3 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., part of cyma face, bit of crowning moulding, top, broken all edges. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.063 L00.135 | |
Area: | Early Excavations | |
Context: | Early Excavations, Provenance Unknown | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 P72 S47 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Early Excavations Basket: Early Excavations, Provenance Unknown |