Corinth Object: V 172
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   V 172
Title:   VOTIVE HAND
Category:   Votive
Category Code:   V
Object Number:   172
Description:   Mouldmade right hand and beginning of wrist. Hand and fingers are solid. Two holes pierce top and bottom of wrist. Palm is almost flat and fingers are held staright out. Knuckles are modelled. Ends of fingers and nails are flattened; joints and nails made by incision.
Decoration:   White sizing, black paint.
Material:   Fine buff to pale orange clay.
Condition:   Fragment. Two joining fragments of hand; right side and thumb missing; all fingers broken off and mended; outer surface damaged.
Manufacture:   F28 MM
Dimensions Actual:   L. 0.185
Area:   Asklepieion
Findspot Description:   Asklepieion
Bibliography:   Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 70, p. 124
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951
Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 2005 030 05