| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 865 | |
| Title: | RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 865 | |
| Description: | Flat undersurface striated. Face: fascia continuing without articulation into cyma reversa, cavetto crowning moulding. Top surface 00.086 wide with striated trimming along front edge. Back of sima cants outward at 14 degrees. Lt. side: anathyrosis with tongue behind largely broken away. | |
| Decoration: | All surfaces slipped, soffit to 00.042 from face. Decorated in light-on-dark: soffit: red band W00.013. Face: fascia has maeander checkerboard H00.041; cyma: anthemion-palmette chain. 11-petal palmette, petals turning down with pointed ends, elongated spade-shaped heart with red center fired to brown, edge reserved. 5-petal anthemion with 3 sepals scratched into surface after firing. Tendril below making loop under anthemion. Reserved line beneath cavetto, on cavetto: egg-dart on red ground, darts, edges of eggs reserved, tongue reserved; fillet: bead-reel. | |
| Material: | Coarse buff clay with inclusions. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving left end tile; missing part of fascia at right end and lower cyma. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.149 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.23 | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB185 P67 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 8661 Basket: NB185 P67 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 37 (pp. 67 - 68) |
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