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 |