| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 894 | |
| Title: | RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 894 | |
| Description: | Sima with flat undersurface, cyma reversa face without fascia, horizontal top, concave back. Lt. side has anathyrosis and base of tongue. On bottom at 00.054 back from face along lt. edge is cutting 00.024 m. deep for next tile. | |
| Decoration: | Slipped on face and 00.083 of undersurface. Decoration light-on-dark, anthemion-palmette chain, doubled. 9-petal drooping palmette with rounded tips. Red spade-shaped heart with reserved edge. 3-leaf anthemion with 2 sepals in profile, body red. End of tendril curls up and out under heart of palmette of one chain to loop over palmette of 2nd and back to palmette of 1st chain. On soffit red band W00.077 | |
| Material: | Coarse buff clay fired pink through most of thickness with numerous fine to coarse (to 6mm.) red inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 8/3 (surface) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., lower left corner, preserving bottom, ca. 5/8 face, lt. joint, broken at tongue, top surface. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.125 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.134 | |
| Period: | 5th c. B.C. | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB189 P295 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5539 Image: bw 5628 Basket: NB189 P295 Notebook Page: NB 189, spread 54 (pp. 296 - 297) |
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