Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FS 59 | |
Title: | SMALL RAKING SIMA | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FS | |
Object Number: | 59 | |
Description: | Sima with base moulding (prob. fascia), outset cyma reversa above which narrow fascia. Top flat. | |
Decoration: | On cyma: egg-dart in light on red ground: egg has reserved center with black filling at edges, reserved then black line outline; dart reserved, with thick black outline for tip, against red ground in angles. Fascia reserved. For type cf. FS-XXXX-10. Cf. LeRoy, FD II series 79, S38, pl.58 for similar decoration. | |
Writing: | inscribed. Crude letter cut into top surface: [ before firing. | |
Material: | Coarse buff clay with moderate admixture of fine black, some red inclusions. Fine slip. | |
Munsell Color: | Ca. 10YR 7.5/3 | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper two-thirds sima face to top, broken below, either end. | |
Dimensions Actual: | H00.084 (cyma) H00.015 (fascia) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H00.105 L00.233 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Area: | Early Excavations | |
Context: | Early Excavations, In pencil: W(est ?) Ba(wu?)t----/2nd line ---- 4 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 P74 S59 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Early Excavations Basket: Early Excavations, In pencil: W(est ?) Ba(wu?)t----/2nd line ---- 4 |