Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | FS 2012 1 | |
Title: | LATERAL SIMA | |
Category: | Architecture | |
Category Code: | FS | |
Year: | 2012 | |
Object Number: | 1 | |
Description: | Sima with projecting bottom fascia, 0.025 high, surmounted by moulded vertical face, 0.097 preserved height. Moulded face decorated with a fluted stalk, curving around volute; volute of two smooth coils. Similar to FS-1048 (Bookidis & Stroud 1997, Corinth 18.3, cat. 39). | |
Decoration: | Blue paint preserved on fluted stalk and flat background of moulded, vertical surface; red paint preserved at bottom of moulded, vertical surface. | |
Material: | Coarse pink clay with abundant medium to very large platy reddish yellow inclusions, frequent small gray platy inclusions, and abundant small to very large platy voids, | |
Munsell Color: | Core: 7.5YR 7/4 (pink); Surface: 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) | |
Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving small part of bottom edge and broken on all edges; traces of cream slip, red and blue paint. Very fragile, very many chips missing. | |
Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.111, L. 0.118, D. 0.068 | |
Period: | Roman | |
Chronology: | Based on comparanda | |
Area: | Nezi Field | |
Context: | Nezi Field, context 838 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Nezi Field Image: digital 2013 0023 Basket: Nezi Field, context 838 |