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| Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Object | | Name: | | A 2010 1 | | Title: | | EARLY ROMAN SIMA | | Category: | | Architecture | | Category Code: | | A | | Year: | | 2010 | | Object Number: | | 1 | | Description: | | Marble sima with acanthus scroll in high relief, consisting of an unbroken, fluted stalk springing out to the right (possibly from a missing spout) and two tenderils, which curl down and out to the right and left from the stalk. Both tendrils have a V-shaped section and are of nearly the same size. Similar decoration as terracotta FS-988 (Bookidis & Stroud 1997, Corinth 18.3, cat. 73). | | Material: | | Marble. | | Condition: | | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving part of two large spirals and part of leaf. Right edge partially preserved and cutting for clamp at side. | | Period: | | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | | Chronology: | | tag labelled "ER" by ITH, comparanda is earlier but marble material indicates a later date | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context: | | Nezi Field, context 6827 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | References: | | Monument: Nezi Field
Image: digital 2010 3407
Basket: Nezi Field, context 6827
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