| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 880 | |
| Title: | RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 880 | |
| Description: | Sima with flat undersurface. Front face: cyma reversa without articulated fascia or crowning moulding. Top horizontal W00.084 sloping forward. Back of sima flares at 30 degrees from vertical. Socket preserved behind front face at rt. end. | |
| Decoration: | Soffit: red border W00.068. Face: maeander along bottom. H00.045 Above, anthemion-palmette chain. 11-petal palmette with round tips folded downward, fold executed with line to suffest 3/4 view. 5-petal anthemion, 3 sepals outer two of which saw-toothed, top folded over perspective, painted red, edge reserved. Central sepal reserved, edge red. 2 smaller sepals projecting horizontally to side of base of anthemion, leaf red with reserved edge. Tendril and loop below. | |
| Material: | Coarse buff clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., preserving complete profile, right end. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.132 (max) H00.123 (face) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.296 | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB185 P51 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5545 Image: bw 8655 Basket: NB185 P51 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 29 (pp. 51 - 52) |
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