| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 202 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE FEMALE BREAST | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 202 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade hollow breast, attached to separately made plaque, clumps of clay from plaque adhering to base of breast. Small rounded breast, cylindrical nipple protrudes out, flat at end. Regular divets in interior, possibly from being pressed into mould. | |
| Decoration: | White slip, pink paint. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay, with rare, large, spherical, rounded, white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/3 to 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete breast broken all around at base, blackening of surface with large patches slip and paint preserved. Breast probably attached to plaque, now missing. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 F MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. 0.078, Th. of nipple to back 0.037, Diam. of nipple 0.009 | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB122 P198, LOT 1931 035 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Votive Deposit V | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 28, p. 122 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 2915 Basket: NB122 P198 |
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