| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | FS 864 | |
| Title: | RAKING SIMA WITH CYMA REVERSA PROFILE | |
| Category: | Architecture | |
| Category Code: | FS | |
| Object Number: | 864 | |
| Description: | Flat undersurface. Face: fascia H00.028, outset cyma reversa crowned by cavetto with slight fascia. Top horizontal surface W00.084, back surface flares ca. 42 degrees from vertical. | |
| Decoration: | All surfaces slipped, and undersurface to 00.08-00.09 from face. Decorated in light-on-dark. Soffit: reserved astragalos W00.037, red band 00.026 wide. Fascia: maeander checkerboard. Cyma: anthemion-palmette chain. Palmettes have 11 leaves turning down, ending in hawksbeak profile; axial leaf has round end. Tall, shovel-shaped heart with coutercurve profile has red center, edges reserved. Anthemion: rounded petals except for pointed axial petal, 3 sepals edged in red. Tendril connects palmettes with ends curling down under each palmette, at each end a leaf; pinched into single stalk with knob under anthemion. Cavetto: egg-dart on red ground, eggs black with reserved edges, darts reserved. Fascia reserved. | |
| Material: | Coarse buff clay. | |
| Condition: | Complete profile. Complete profile, broken either end, right half of fascia and left end crown. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H00.099 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L00.388 (ptd. face) | |
| Period: | Classical | |
| Area: | Tile Works | |
| Context: | NB185 P67 | |
| Provenance: | Corinth | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Tile Works Image: bw 5545 Image: bw 8649 Basket: NB185 P67 Notebook Page: NB 185, spread 37 (pp. 67 - 68) |
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