| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 862 | |
| Title: | RAKING SIMA, MEGARIAN TYPE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 862 | |
| Description: | Sima with ranking face consisting of fascia H00.095, above which flattened quarter-round H00.070, crowned by ovolo H00.023 m. Top horizontal surface W00.092 m. Back of sima slopes outwards at 10 degrees off vertical. No horizontal hole in core of quarter-round. At rt. projecting tongue 00.10 m. long for overlap to next tile. | |
| Decoration: | Front, top and back slipped, soffit to 00.03-00.05 from front edge. Decorated in dark on light: soffit: 00.024 m. wide red band along front edge. Face: double lotus-palmette chain on fascia, quarter-round, connected by S-shaped tendrils over-lapping onto quarter-round with ends curving up toward lotuses. Palmette had alternate red-black petals, axial petal black, rounded leaves droop slightly; red, concave diamond shaped hearts of palmette and lotus. Lotus leaves black, stamen red with facetted top. Crowning ovolo: alternating red and black vertical stripes on reserved ground. | |
| Writing: | dipinto. Dipinto in black on anathyrosis of rt. joint: | |
| Material: | Coarse clay fired buff at surface, red at core, with many fine to coarse (to 4 mm.) red inclusions, 1 black 1.5 cm. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slip: 10YR 7.5/4 | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Whole right end of sima, broken at lt. | |
| Manufacture: | MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.188-00.190 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.372 | |
| Period: | Archaic (7th-6th c.) | |
| Chronology: | Ca. 500 BC | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB185 P67 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5531 Image: bw 8646 Basket: NB185 P67 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 37 (pp. 67 - 68) |
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