Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 306 | |
Title: | VOTIVE HAND: FINGER | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 306 | |
Description: | Life-sized finger, exactly which unclear. Finger extended, round in section and tapering to rounded tip with very faint rendering of two joints - upper one clearer - by slight swellings but no incised creases. Long finger nail, rounded at base and square cut at tip. Finger worked free of other fingers. Finger solid, surface not carefully smoothed; probably handmade. | |
Decoration: | Traces of white slip, but no overlying paint. | |
Material: | Fine clay, fired buff at surface to greenish core, with rare angular black inclusions, fine voids. | |
Munsell Color: | Surface: between 7.5YR 7/4 and 10YR 7/4 or slightly yellower; core: near 2.5Y 8/2 | |
Condition: | Fragment. single frgt., from tip to just below 2nd joint from tip. Traces of slip. | |
Manufacture: | F01 HM | |
Dimensions Actual: | D00.019 (base) | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L00.068 | |
Period: | Classical | |
Chronology: | Classical, context mixed to Byzantine | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB197 P140 | |
Provenance: | Corinth | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, NE Lerna court | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 2000 008 17 Basket: NB197 P140 |