| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 196a | |
| Title: | VOTIVE PLAQUE FOR FEMALE BREAST | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 196 | |
| Object Suffix: | a | |
| Description: | Terracotta plaque for a votive breast, broad groove where breast would have adhered to plaque. Front and edges flat, edges vertically cut, back unfinished. Groove for breast does not meet up with edge of plaque. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow to pink clay, with frequent, large to very large, rounded to subrounded, spherical, black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) to 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Four joining fragments, mended, broken on left and with upper right corner missing. Surface pitted, scratched. Traces of glue where a votive had once been attached. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of plaque 0.007 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | W. 0.091 | |
| Dimensions Restored: | H. 0.104, Diam. of attached breast 0.079 | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB122 P198, LOT 1931 035 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Votive Deposit V | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Basket: NB122 P198 |
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