| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 218 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE FEMALE BREAST | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 218 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade single breast on plaque. One suspension hole (diam. 0.004) on right side of plaque above breast, possibly another (not preserved) mirroring on left side of plaque. Breast is hollow but has thick walls, large opening through plaque into breast interior. Rounded, small, full breast with button-shaped and flat-topped nipple. Interior of breast rough, not finished. | |
| Decoration: | White slip, red paint. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay, with frequent, medium, rounded to angular, spherical, white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/3 to 7.5YR 8/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Complete or intact. Breast complete; nipple and lower part of breast chipped; plaque broken all around but preserving full width. Part of one suspension hole preserved in upper right corner of plaque. Surface chipped, patches of slip remaining at base of breast. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 F MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. 0.091, Th. nipple to back 0.050, Diam. of breast 0.082, Diam. of nipple 0.012 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.096 | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB126 P108 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, 1932, Kriebardi test trench, Votive Deposit IV | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 26, p. 122 | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 5739 Basket: NB126 P108 |
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