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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FS 7 | | Title: | | LIGHT-ON-DARK SIMA | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FS | | Object Number: | | 7 | | Description: | | Sima with fascia at base, unarticulated from cyma reversa above; above this, outset cyma reversa crowning moulding, upper half of which worn away. Top surface slopes at ca. 20 degree angle from horizontal. | | Decoration: | | All surfaces slipped. Soffit: border 00.066 m. wide: bead-reel with round beads, pointed reel, light on black ground, broad band (W00.023) of red-brown paint. Face: fascia: Maeander IIa in black on reserved ground, with red outline around checkerboard. Cyma: anthemion with 11-petal palmette with diamond-shaped central petal, drooping petals with rounded to sharply cut tips, oval heart with red center; lotus with 4 founded drooping petals, diamond-shaped central one, over sepals outlined in red. Beneath, tendril marking loop under lotus. All light on dark. Lesbian-leaf above: leaf solid black with dilute glaze outline which makes round dot between leaves. Dart reserved against purple red ground. | | Material: | | Coarse buff clay with numerous fine to coarser (to 6mm) black mudstone inclusions. Fine surface slip. | | Munsell Color: | | 10YR 8/3 slip | | Condition: | | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile except for face of crowning moulding; broken at start of tile at back, either end. | | Dimensions Actual: | | L00.245 | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.192 (max) H00.163 (face) H00.037 (crowning moulding) | | Period: | | Classical | | Area: | | Early Excavations | | Context: | | Early Excavations, Provenance Unknown | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Corinth IV.1 P66 S7 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Early Excavations
Image: bw 8658
Basket: Early Excavations, Provenance Unknown
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