| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 255 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE RIGHT HAND | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 255 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade right hand, almost solid. Thumb is seperated from other fingers, fingers seperated by grooves. Thumb held in toward palm and straight up, thumb nail indicated by flattened area surrounded by a groove; other fingers bent at different angles. Grooves on palmar side of knuckles. | |
| Decoration: | White slip, red paint on hand, yellow on thumbnail. | |
| Material: | Fine pink to yellow clay. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4 to 10YR 8/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Two joining fragments broken just below thumb, mended; all fingers except thumb broken off. Large patches white slip, red and yellow paint remaining. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. across hand at knuckles 0.067, L. of thumb 0.049, W. of thumb at knuckle 0.017, W. of second finger at second knuckle 0.013, Th. Of thumb 0.014 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.095, Th. Of clay at back of hand 0.015 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Kriebardi 1932 | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 73, p. 124 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Image: bw 5739 |
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