Corinth Object: FS 886
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   FS 886
Title:   RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE
Category:   Architecture
Category Code:   FS
Object Number:   886
Description:   Raking sima with cyma reversa profile, beveled fillet H00.026. Horizontal top W00.048. Anathyrosis on lt. joint; cut in back as socket to overlap adjacent sima.
Decoration:   Front face slipped. Light on dark decoration: lotus-palmette chain. 9-petal palmette with rounded tips. 3-leaf lotus with elongated side leaves forming circular frame over top half of palmette, central petal diamond-shaped. Fillet: bead-reel. On top sloping surface black from painted face on edge. No red or purple on frgt.
Material:   Coarse buff clay
Condition:   Fragment. Single frgt., upper lt. corner of sima.
Dimensions Preserved:   H00.076 L00.111
Area:   Tile Works
Context:   NB190 P426
Provenance:   Corinth
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Monument: Tile Works
Image: bw 5539
Image: bw 8636
Basket: NB190 P426
Notebook Page: NB 190, spread 32 (pp. 425 - 426)