| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 873 | |
| Title: | RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 873 | |
| Description: | Horizontal undersurface. Fascia on face unarticulated from cyma revesa; no articulation crown. Top W00.084, sloping forward. Back of sima flares at 30 degrees from vertical. Same sima as FS-XXXX-880. Overlapping tongue at lt., no anathyrosis. | |
| Decoration: | Slipped wall. Light-on-dark decoration. Soffit: red band W00.068. Maeander-checkerboard along bottom of face, H00.045, Cyma has anthemion palmette chain. 11-petal palmette, round tips folded downward with fold done with line to suggest 3/4 view. 5-petal anthemion with 3 sepals - 2 flanking saw-toothed, top folded over in perspective, top of leaf red; 2 smaller sepals project horizontally to side at bottom of anthemion, red leaf with reserved edges. Tendril and loop beneath. | |
| Material: | Coarse buff clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving lt. end tile, preserving tongue, broken to lt. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.125 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.147 | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB185 P24 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5545 Basket: NB185 P24 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 15 (pp. 23 - 24) |
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