| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 138 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE LEG | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 138 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade right leg with buttock and foot. Hollow leg. On inside of leg at top of thigh large indentation as if hunk of skin missing. Buttock realistically rendered. Leg nicely shaped. Muscle of thighs, knee, shin bone all modelled. Foot less pleasingly done. Heavy incision for nails and joints of toes; arch for instep; flat sole in back; ball of foot modelled; tool marks from working after. | |
| Material: | Fine yellow buff clay with small black inclusions. | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete; approximately 24 fragments, mended, RIP. Middle toe damaged, fourth toe broken at end. Clay cap now missing. On back of buttock, metal stain and on outside of ankle just above bone, stain and piece of metal preserved, L. 0.012. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.810, L. of foot 0.244 | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 82, p. 125 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Images (6) |
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