Corinth Object: V 129
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   V 129
Title:   VOTIVE FEMALE BREAST
Category:   Votive
Category Code:   V
Object Number:   129
Description:   Mouldmade breast attached to plaque. Suspension hole near top edge of plaque (diam. 0.005). Breast hollow; small hole punched in back of plaque (diam. 0.004). Full, round breast, button shaped nipple.
Decoration:   White slip over all, pink paint on breast.
Material:   Fine buff clay.
Munsell Color:   7.5YR 8/4 (pink)
Condition:   Fragment. Five joining fragments of plaque broken along left side; much of breast RIP. Most likely plaque had second breast (one half of a pair preserved). Traces of slip, paint remaining on clay surface.
Manufacture:   F28 F MM
Dimensions Actual:   Th. nipple to back ca. 0.060, Diam. nipple 0.015
Dimensions Preserved:   W. 0.101
Dimensions Restored:   H. 0.110
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB122 P198, LOT 1931 035
Findspot Description:   Asklepieion, Votive Deposit V
Bibliography:   Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 23, p. 121
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951
Monument: Asklepieion
Images (6)
Basket: NB122 P198