Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FS 55 | |
Title: | LATERAL SIMA | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FS | |
Object Number: | 55 | |
Old Number: | Former MF-21 form 1st series numbering in circle (lapsed) | |
Description: | Lateral sima with flat pantile/soffit, Fascia tilts back at 80 deg. angle to soffit, above which profile uncertain. Fascia cut by attachment for lion mane, with surface of spout at rt. break. | |
Decoration: | Light-on-dark astragalos on soffit, W00.060, Red border W 00.019. Fascia: maeander IIa in black-on-light with red outline around checkerboard. Part of black background preserved on upper part of face. | |
Material: | Coarse buff clay with pinkish caste with fine to coarser (to 5 mm.) red inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Between 10YR 7.5/3 and 7.5YR 7.5/3 (surface) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of pan tile, fascia and edge of main profile; attachment for lionhead spout at lower right; broken either edge. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.06 (fascia) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.078 L00.268 Depth00.185 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Area: | Forum west | |
Context: | Forum west, Ca. midway in long trench south of St. John's | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Forum West or Temple of Apollo. Ca. midway in long trench south of St John's. June 24, 1904. | |
Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 P73 S55 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Forum west Basket: Forum west, Ca. midway in long trench south of St. John's |