Corinth Object: V 40
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   V 40
Title:   VOTIVE TERRACOTTA HEAD OF ASKLEPIOS
Category:   Votive
Category Code:   V
Object Number:   40
Description:   Mouldmade mask of bearded male, back open and hollow. Hair and beard surround face, also has moustache. Texture of hair, beard and moustache made by deep narrow grooves in added clay. Lips are apart, groove with punch hole in corner seperates them. Small, narrow straight nose and punch holes for nostrils. Large eyes with thin protruding lids, deep groove above upper lid; eyebrows indicated by ridge where planes of lid and brow meet.
Decoration:   White sizing on face. Red paint on hairs, also underside of beard.
Material:   Fine pinky buff to orange clay.
Condition:   Fragment. Seven joining fragments, most of lower lip (except left corner) RIP, right half of left eye, brow and middle of forehead with some hair above RIP. Complete face and beard, broken at hair from middle to left side. Nose and lips damaged.
Manufacture:   F23 M MM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.270
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB122 P69, LOT 1931 032
Findspot Description:   Asklepieion, Votive Deposit II, Votive Deposit IV
Bibliography:   Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 1, p. 119
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951
Monument: Asklepieion
Image: bw 2006 002 11
Image: bw 2006 002 12
Basket: NB122 P69