Corinth Object: FS 9
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   FS 9
Title:   LIGHT-ON-DARK SIMA
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   FS
Object Number:   9
Description:   Sima with deep cyma reversa, above which narrow crowning cyma reversa. Top surface at least 00.11 m. wide.
Decoration:   On cyma: light on black ground, 11-petal palmette with rounded, slightly drooping tips, alternating with attanuatted lotus with outturned leaves, central buf or petal wrounded tip, shorter than outer leaves; beneath, second row of leaves rendered in thin reserved line. Scroll beneath palmette making tight fold under lotus. Above, traces of Lesbian leaf with black leaf having reserved outline against red ground. Top and back surfaces slipped.
Material:   Coarse buff clay with dense admixture of chiefly fine, few coarse (to 4mm) black, red mudstone inclusions. Surface slunf or gray in places.
Munsell Color:   Between 10YR 7/3 and 2.5Y 7/3
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., preserving most of cymation with lower half crowning moulding, upper surface; broken either end.
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.098 L00.123
Period:   5th c. B.C.
Context:   , Provenance unknown
Provenance:   Corinth
Bibliography:   Corinth IV.1 P67 S9
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Image: bw 8650
Basket: , Provenance unknown