| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 6 | |
| Title: | LIGHT-ON-DARK RAKING SIMA | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 6 | |
| Description: | Raking sima with tall fascia as base moulding, inset cyma reversa, above which narrow cyma, above which narrow fascia or fillet - face broken away. Cf. FS=XXXX-5 for same profile. All faces slipped. | |
| Decoration: | Soffit: red-brown glaze overall for at least 00.07 from front face. Fascia: Maeander IIa, dark on light. Cyma: lotus-palmette chain, consisting of 11-petal palmette with rounded slightly drooping tips, oval heart with center red (?). Lotus with long leaves nearly touching above palmette, pointed central bud or leaf, no sepals. Tendril making prirals below palmette, narrow bend below lotus. Painted light on black ground. Upper cyma: Lesbian leaf-dart: leaf has reserved outline, rest black with reserved center. Angular reserved dart. Note: reconstruction shown in Corinth IV.1 pl. V unsubstantiated for decoration of crowning fascia based on FS-XXXX-6 and FS-XXXX-5. | |
| Material: | Coarse yellow-buff clay with dense admixture. Fine to coarse black mudstone inclusions. Fine surface slip. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slip slightly yellower than 5Y 7/3.5 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Single frgt., complete profile, broken at back, either end. Surface chipped. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.145 H00.055 (fascia) H00.065 (cyma) H00.020 (cyma) H00.005 (fascia) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.297 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Early Excavations | |
| Context: | Early Excavations, Provenance Unknown | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 P66 S6 Pl. V | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Early Excavations Image: bw 5579 Image: bw 8652 Basket: Early Excavations, Provenance Unknown |
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