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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FS 52 | | Title: | | MEGARIAN TYPE RAKING SIMA | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FS | | Object Number: | | 52 | | Description: | | Megarian type sima with flat soffit, tall fascia (H00.077) broken at start of torus; preserved at upper break is partof surface from hollow interior of torus. Faces slipped. | | Decoration: | | Broad red-brown stripe W00.051 on soffit; fascia: lower half of reversible lotus-palmette chain, with 7-petal palmette reserved on black ground, with round heart, lotus with detached side petals, stamen continuous with stem and tendril which continues under palmette. | | Material: | | Coarse clay fired bright pink at core, yellow at surfaces, with dense amount fine to coarse (to 5mm.) red inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | Paler than 2.5YR 6/6 (core) Slightly grayer than ;;;2.5YR 7/5 (slip) | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving soffit and lower half of sima face, broken at juncture with tile, either end. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.101 L00.122 | | Period: | | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | | Chronology: | | to early 5th ? | | Context: | | , Provenance unknown | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Corinth IV.1 P73 S52 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Basket: , Provenance unknown
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