Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 42 | |
Title: | VOTIVE FEMALE BREAST | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 42 | |
Description: | Mouldmade hollow breast, hollow, on plaque and apparently not made separate. Breast is very full, rounded; very small projection at top for nipple. | |
Decoration: | White slip. | |
Material: | Fine pink clay, with few, large to very large, subrounded to angular, tabular to spherical, brown and gray inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete breast, only tiny part of plaque preserved, broken all around; traces of slip only remaining on clay surface. | |
Manufacture: | F28 F MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | Diam. 0.099, H. 0.077, Diam. of nipple 0.007 | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB122 B1 P138 | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, grid V:36 | |
Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 27, p. 122 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 2915 Basket: NB122 B1 P138 |