Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 148 | |
Title: | VOTIVE LEG | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 148 | |
Description: | Mouldmade left lower leg and foot. Leg hollow; opening at top closed by clay cap. A suspension hole pierces leg on each side just below cap. Shape of leg not accurate; two bumps at top of shin bone. Ankle bone, top of foot and toes well modelled; incised groove for toenails. Sole flat and rough, added seperately as was foot to leg. Very large toes for size of leg. | |
Decoration: | Black paint on front part of sole and some on toes. | |
Material: | Fine buff to light orange clay, tiny black inclusions. | |
Condition: | Fragment. Nine joining fragments; foot, complete, broken and mended; upper part of leg, clay cap, and suspension holes all RIP. | |
Manufacture: | F28 MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | L. of foot 0.234 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.395 | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 96, p. 126 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion |