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) |