| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 215 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE LEG | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 215 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade left leg and buttock and foot. Hollow leg; opening at top closed by rounded cap of clay; in center of cap a hole diam. 0.029. Nicely shaped, athletic leg; well developed calf muscles; knee not fully modelled; ridge for shin bone; wide shallow groove outlining inner calf. Tendon, ankle bones and toes also not fully modelled; grooves for seperation of toes. Flat sole; narrow slot from heel to middle of foot opening to hollow ankle and leg. | |
| Decoration: | White sizing, red paint. | |
| Material: | Fine buff to pale orange clay. | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Approximately thirty-four joining fragments, mended and RIP. Big toe and part of top of foot damaged. In 1991 leg fell over and shattered. It was remended but numerous small flakes would not rejoin (these stored in Askep. Fig. dr. E workroom). | |
| Manufacture: | F28 MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.935, L. of foot 0.249 | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 81, p. 125 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Images (6) |
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