| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 378 | |
| Title: | ARCHAIC STRIGIL-TYPE SIMA | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 378 | |
| Old Number: | M5 written and crossed out on piece. | |
| Description: | Sima with deep cavetto profile, curving down very slightly at top, crowned by vertical face, flat top. All surfaces thickly slipped. Narrow beveled edge along top front edge W. 0.007 m. Painted face and top edge with Doric leaf, each leaf broad and square with broad reserved outline, interior alternating red and black. Black leaf on face, crowed by red leaf above. Top reserved. | |
| Material: | Coarse clay with numerous fine to coarser (1 mm.) red inclusions, fired yellow at surface, pink core. | |
| Munsell Color: | Slip: ca. 2.5Y 8/3 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single frgt., preserving top moulding of sima, broken all edges, back. | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.030, L. 0.115, Depth 0.040 | |
| Area: | Early Excavations | |
| Context: | Early Excavations, Provenance unknown | |
| Bibliography: | Van Buren, GFR p. 78 (21), n. 75; Corinth IV, 1, p. 98, S378 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Early Excavations Image: bw 1963 020 13 |
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