| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 147 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE LEG | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 147 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade right leg to just above knee and foot. Leg is hollow, opening at top closed by a flat cap of clay which is pierced by two holes one larger than the other. Leg is nicely shaped; knee cap, shin bone modelled; tendon of ankle and ankle bone also modelled. Arch for instep; flat sole; separation of toes made by groove on underside. | |
| Decoration: | Purple pink paint. | |
| Material: | Buff to light orange clay with small black inclusions. | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Complete, approximately 19 joining fragments, spaces RIP; toes missing. Blackening. Holes in clay cap mostly RIP. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.463, L. of foot 0.262 | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 93, p. 126 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Images (5) |
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