| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 659 | |
| Title: | ARCHAIC SIMA | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 659 | |
| Description: | Archaic sima with vertical face crowned by half-round moulding along top. Moulding decorated with alternating black and red bands, widely spaced, divided from reserved zone on vertical face by narrow brown line. Vertical face divided into two zones. | |
| Decoration: | Top decorated with horizontal red band; bottom with horizontal guilloche, compass-drawn, black background. Guilloche partly reserved, partly with red. | |
| Material: | Clay: light tan, pinkish at core, mudstone; slip greenish cream; added red and dark brown paint. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Broken on all sides. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. average 0.044, H. of half round crown 0.022 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.115, L. 0.155 | |
| Findspot Description: | Agora SE, South Stoa | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck, Hesperia 1990, p. 62 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Hesperia 59:1, 1990 Image: bw 5530 Image: bw 8660 |
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