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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FS 55a | | Title: | | SIMA: BASE MOLDING | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FS | | Object Number: | | 55 | | Object Suffix: | | a | | Related Objects: | | FS-XXXX-5 (?) | | Description: | | Sima, from flank (?) with tall fascia at bottom, set back 00.006 to base of next moulding. At lt. break beginning of a surface projecting from front of fascia, and at back of face of sima, similar turning in, from lion-head spout ? Rt. join shows anathyrosis. Associated with FS-XXXX-5. | | Decoration: | | Soffit: decorative border 00.06 m. wide: bead-reel with oval bead, 2 angular reels, reserved on black background. Broad stripe in dilute glaze. Fascia: maeander type IIA, black on reserved ground. Note: I.T. Hill associates FS-XXXX-5 with FS-XXXX-6; both soffit and fascia differ from FS-XXXX-5A. | | Material: | | Buff-yellow coarse clay with dense admixture of fine to coarse (to 4mm) black mudstone inclusions, buff slip. | | Munsell Color: | | Slip slightly yellower than 5Y 7/3. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving bottom of tile, base moulding, right joint. Broken back, left and top, nearly half of front face missing. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H00.062 (base fascia) | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.090 L00.24 Depth00.165 | | Period: | | 5th c. B.C. | | Context: | | , Provenance unknown | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Basket: , Provenance unknown
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