| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 877 | |
| Title: | RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 877 | |
| Description: | Sima with flat undersurface, fascia on face rises at 85 degrees from undersurface; shallow cyma reversa, almost cavetto-like, crowning cavetto with fascia above. Top flat surface W00.073 bevel W00.014 along front edge. Back face flares at 25 degrees. Anathyrosis on rt. joint, socket for tongue of next tile. | |
| Decoration: | All surfaces but back slipped. Light-on-dark paint: soffit: red band W00.036. Fascia: maeander checkerboard. Cyma: anthemion-palmette, beginning at rt. with half anthemion. Palmette 11-petaled, tips turned down and pointed; elongated shovel-shaped heart, red with reserved edge. 3-petal anthemion with 3 sepals outlined in red. Cavetto: bead-reel. Fascia: slip worn away. | |
| Material: | Coarse buff clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Four joining frgts., preserving right end tile, complete profile. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.334 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.524 | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB185 P56 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5541 Image: bw 5542 Image: bw 8663 Basket: NB185 P56 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 31 (pp. 55 - 56) |
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