| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 35 | |
| Title: | CORNER SIMA WITH ACROTERION BASE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 35 | |
| Old Number: | Former MF-10 from 1st series numbering (lapsed) | |
| Description: | Sima with fascia at bottom, above which outset cyma reversa (H00.076 at least), crowning moulding broken away. Profile preserved on both faces. Top surface flat, horizontal, setting line scratched in a ca. 00.045 m. from front face; at 00.062 m. from face raised lip of acroterion box; lip 00.023 m. thick, H. at corner 00.021, tapering to rt. to 00.017 m. Floor of box horizontal on level with top of sima. No marks left by anything in it. | |
| Decoration: | Soffit: astragalos to 00.026, reserved on black ground, then purplish red paint to at least 00.062 from front face. Fascia: maeander IIS; cyma: light on dark palmette-and-bud with red accessories, largely defaced. Top slipped. | |
| Material: | Coarse buff-tan clay with dense admixture of coarse black, red mudstone inclusions (to 5mm.) | |
| Munsell Color: | Slip: 10YR 6/4 Core: 10YR 7.5/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving corner from soffit to top, both faces largely broken away; part of acroterion box. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.133 (sima) H00.156 (max) H00.037 (fascia) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.185 W00.155 (ca.) | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Area: | Forum west | |
| Context: | NB27 P49 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 P70 S35; Van Buren, GFR P97-98 (107) ;;;N191 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Forum west |
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