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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | FS 58 | | Title: | | LARGE-SCALE RAKING SIMA | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | FS | | Object Number: | | 58 | | Description: | | Enormous sima having flattened cyma reversa profile, above which outset fillet, flattened ovolo (?), and narrow fascia. Lt. joint flat with slight anathyrosis. | | Decoration: | | Faint remains of light-on-dark decoration with palmette flower below which bud rising from tendril. Cf. FS-XXXX-49, -50 for type. On crowning moulding poss. lesbian leaf. | | Writing: | | inscribed. Letter inscribed on top surface, poss. before firing - channels deep and fairly smooth: B beta | | Material: | | Coarse light pinkish-buff clay with dense admixture of fine to coarse mudstone inclusions. | | Munsell Color: | | Surface ca. 7.5YR 7/5 | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper two-thirds of sima face, to top, left joint; broken at right, below and back. Surface decoration largely worn away. | | Dimensions Actual: | | H00.060 (crown) | | Dimensions Preserved: | | H00.295 W00.275 | | Chronology: | | ? | | Context: | | , Provenance unknown | | Provenance: | | Corinth | | Bibliography: | | Corinth IV.1 P73 S58 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Basket: , Provenance unknown
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