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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FS 64 | | Title: | | ROMAN SIMA WITH ACANTHUS SCROLL | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FS | | Object Number: | | 64 | | Description: | | Sima consisting of vertical panel (base missing), P.H.00.155, above which bead-reel, fillet, ovolo with egg and dart in relief, outset fascia H00.015. Top flat; Smooth lt. joint, broken in back. Panel decorated with acanthus stalk, coarsely fluted vertically, from which spring two coiling tendrils, rendered by double fillets; from angle hangs spirally fluted bud with pointed tip, one acanthus leaf. Mouldings also plastic. | | Material: | | Moderately fine clay with scattered coarse gray (to 6mm.) inclusions, some fine white and 1 popped. Fired light pink at core, light grayish-yellow at surface. | | Munsell Color: | | 5Y 7/3.5 surface | | Condition: | | Missing parts. Single frgt., broken at bottom, at juncture with tile; preserving complete profile for rest of face, lt. edge. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.235 L00.212 | | Period: | | Roman | | Area: | | Early Excavations | | Context: | | Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Corinth IV.1 P74 S64 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Early Excavations
Basket: Early Excavations, Exact provenance unknown
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