| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 178 | |
| Title: | ROMAN LATERAL SIMA | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 178 | |
| Description: | Sima with vertical panel decorated in low relief with double spiral, one to lt. larger than one to rt. Each consists of thick convex coil, ending in solid eye. Between two is 3 petal bud rising vertically from tendrils. Crowning moulding consists of ovolo with egg-dart in relief between 2 fillets. Top, rt. joint smooth. | |
| Decoration: | Surface slipped white, with red line down rt. edge, and on center eye, petals of bud. | |
| Material: | Moderately coarse clay with scattered fine to coarse red inclusions, fired buff at surface, pin at core to dark red in back half. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 6/4 (back) 2.5YR 6/4 (core towards back) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving upper right end of sima, upper half of panel, crowning moulding, right joint. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.046 (crown) | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H00.151 L00.240 | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Context: | , Provenance unknown | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Bibliography: | Corinth IV.1 P83 S178 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Basket: , Provenance unknown |
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