Corinth Object: FS 876
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   FS 876
Title:   RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   FS
Object Number:   876
Description:   Horizontal undersurface; face: Fascia H00.035, outset cyma reversa H00.07, ovolo H00.017. Top surface W00.069 slopes down toward front. Back of sima flares outward ca. 23 degrees.
Decoration:   Slipped over all except back undersurface, top. Light-on-dark decoration: soffit: bead-reel W00.026, red border W00.01. Fascia: checkerboard maeander. Cyma: 11-petal palmettes and 3-petal anthemia, petals round-tipped, downturned. Palmette heart red with reserved edge. 3 sepals of anthemion done in perspective with inside painted red, 2 sepals below at sides. Central pistil reserved, outlined in red. Tendril-loop. Ovolo: egg-dart on red ground, black ovules with reserved edge and tongue and darts.
Material:   Coarse buff clay.
Condition:   Complete profile. Single frgt., right end tile, complete profile.
Dimensions Actual:   H00.136
Dimensions Preserved:   L00.239 (face)
Area:   Tile Works
Context:   NB189 P203
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Tile Works
Image: bw 5543
Image: bw 8661
Basket: NB189 P203
Notebook Page: NB 189, spread 7 (pp. 202 - 203)