Corinth Object: V 171
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   V 171
Title:   VOTIVE RIGHT HAND
Category:   Votive
Category Code:   V
Object Number:   171
Description:   Mouldmade, life size or larger, right hand and wrist; fingers added. Hand is hollow; open end of wrist closed with a clay cap, smooth joint. Bottom and top of wrist pierced with a hole (Diam. 0.006), holes not aligned. Thumb is held straight and in toward palm. Second and fourth fingers curve in slightly. Almost no modelling.
Decoration:   White slip.
Material:   Fine pink clay, with rare, large to very large, spherical, rounded, white inclusions.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 8/4 to 7.5YR 7/4 (pink)
Condition:   Missing parts. Complete hand; thumb, second and fourth finger mended, fourth finger broken; little finger and middle finger missing; traces of slip remaining.
Manufacture:   F28 MM
Dimensions Actual:   W. 0.090
Dimensions Restored:   L. 0.217, L. of thumb 0.060, L. of second finger 0.089
Findspot Description:   Asklepieion, Votive Deposit V
Bibliography:   Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 65, p. 124
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951
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