| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 871 | |
| Title: | RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 871 | |
| Description: | Horizontal undersurface with paddling marks on back portion. Face: fascia H00.034, outset cyma reversa moulding. Back of sima flares at ca. 12 degrees from vertical. Anathyrosis on lt. edge, tongue broken away. | |
| Decoration: | All surfaces slipped, soffit to 00.067-00.092 from edge. Light-on-dark decoration: soffit: astragalos W00.039, red border W00.04-00.045. Fascia: maeander- checkerboard; cyma: antemion-palmette chain. 9-petal palmette, axial petal pointed ?, other drooping; tall red shovel-shaped heart with reserved edge and central spine. 5-leaf anthemion, 1 axial sepa outlined in red. Tendril, looping under anthemion. | |
| Material: | Coarse buff clay. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., left end, missing crowning moulding. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.11 L00.216 | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB185 P78 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5543 Image: bw 8649 Basket: NB185 P78 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 42 (pp. 77 - 78) |
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