Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 44 | |
Title: | VOTIVE RIGHT LEG | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 44 | |
Description: | Mouldmade right lower leg and foot. Leg is hollow, open at top, narrowing as it goes down and opening into a narrow slot in sole of foot, slot from heel to middle of foot. Leg only slightly shaped. Tendon, ankle bones, and toes modelled sketchily; gouge for seperation of toes, toe nails; sole flat, rough. | |
Decoration: | White slip, red paint. | |
Material: | Fine light orange clay, purple brown interior, with rare, medium to very large, rounded, spherical, brown inclusions | |
Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/4 (pink) to 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Complete, broken at ankle and mended; big toe missing; broken (?) just below knee. It is possible that fragment is not broken at top but is only missing the clay cap. Pale brown stain from red paint. | |
Manufacture: | F28 U MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.446 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. of foot 0.240, W. 0.116 | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB122 P82, LOT 1931 032 | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Votive Deposit II | |
Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 78, p. 125 | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Images (6) Basket: NB122 P82 |