| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 295 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LIONHEAD SIMA SPOUT | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 295 | |
| Old Number: | MF-00116 (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Sima with flat plaque, lionhead spout, above which double fillet. Lionhead has low forehead, a slashed plastic band for eyebrow continuing into upper lid, lower slashed on sheek, deeply punched hole for pupil. Blunt muzzle with 3 incised whiskers; jaws open, teeth not freed from background, but incised on front of mouth; mane consists of a single row of long tufts, deeply scored, 3 to proper rt., 1 preserved to lt., with scoring continuing onto "scalp". | |
| Decoration: | White slip over much of surface. | |
| Material: | Fine red clay with rare tiny white, black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slightly yellower than 5YR 6/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving right half spout, except for top of nose, and part of sima above. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.196 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | ? Early Roman ? | |
| Area: | Julian Basilica | |
| Context: | NB78 P152 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth ? | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 P092 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Julian Basilica Image: bw 1998 003 08 Basket: NB78 P152 |
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