Corinth Object: FS 47
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