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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FS 2 | | Title: | | CLASSICAL LIGHT-ON-DARK SIMA | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FS | | Object Number: | | 2 | | Description: | | Sima with cymation profile, crowned by narrow fascia H00.016, Upper surface flat, Front 00.032 m. trimmed back slightly. Deeply incised setting line parallel to front face, set 00.050 m. from face. | | Decoration: | | Front and top faces thickly slipped, back thinly slipped. Decoration reserved on black matt background: 11-petal palmette-lotus chin. Only tips of lotus preserved. Palmette has drooping petals with rounded tips, pointed heart with red center. Traces of red paint on fascia. | | Material: | | Coarse buff clay with slight pinkish caste at core, Dense admixture of fine to coarse (to 4 mm.) black, red mudstone inclusions. Fine surface slip. | | Munsell Color: | | Slip: 10YR 7/6 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper half of face, top; most of crowning moulding missing. Broken back, below, either end. Surface chipped. | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.112 L00.153 | | Period: | | Classical | | Context: | | , Provenance unknown | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Corinth IV.1 P66 S2 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Basket: , Provenance unknown
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