| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 860 | |
| Title: | RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 860 | |
| Description: | Sima with flat undersurface, front face has fascia H00.041 at 87 degrees from undersurface. Outset cyma reversa, shallow cavetto crown H00.019m. At left end projecting overlapping tongue and anathyrosis. | |
| Decoration: | All surfaces slipped except anathyrosis, on soffit 00.048-00.05 from edge. Decorated in light-on-dark: soffit: red band W00.022. Face: maeander-checkerboard on fascia; cyma: alternating anthemia-palmette chain, starting with half-anthemion at joint. 11-petal palmette, oval-tipped, drooping. Shovel-shaped reserved heart, reserved heart with red line on axis; anthemion has 5 pointed petals, 3 sepals edged with red. Tendril from palmette to palmette, loops under anthemion, enframing reversed teardrop. Cavetto: egg-dart on red field: darts reserved, eggs matt black with reserved edges, central reserved vein. | |
| Material: | Coarse light buff clay, cream slip. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving left end of tile, complete profile; tongue partly broken, broken at right, missing part of fascia, crowning moulding. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.131 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.28 (max) L00.219 (face) | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB185 P67 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5543 Image: bw 8661 Basket: NB185 P67 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 37 (pp. 67 - 68) Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 39 (pp. 71 - 72) |
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