Object: A 1094
Inventory Number: A 1094
Section Number: ΚΚ 1249
Title: Sima Fragment
Category: Architecture Marble
Description: Fragment of flank sima, broken away at right end, and broken off close behind.
Cyma reversa profile with half round at top edge. A half-housing joint at the left end with a tongue. Traces of a palmette and lily design on curved part of face (spacing 0.134m.), and of maeander on lower face.
Pentelic marble.
Cf. A 1095 (ΚΚ 1250).

ADDENDA Apparently this is the piece seen and drawn by Penrose.
Context: Found in interior of Temple of Hephaistos, to which building it probably belongs.
Storage: North Basement-Architecture, Block 32/7
Negatives: Leica, XX-97, XXI-8, 87-543
Dimensions: H. 0.229; P.L. 0.53; L. (tongue) 0.04
Material: Marble (Pentelic)
Date Of Discovery: 8 June 1939
Section: ΚΚ
Grid: D-F 7-8
Building: Temple of Hephaistos
Bibliography: Camp (2007), p. 59, fig. 72.
 AJA 80 (1976), pp. 235, 240, 244, 245, pls. 39, 40.
 Hesperia Suppl. 5 (1941), p. 110, figs. 41, 42, 43.
 Hesperia 9 (1940), p. 35.
Is Similar To: Agora:Object:A 1095
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