Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 155 | |
Title: | VOTIVE LEG | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 155 | |
Description: | Mouldmade right leg with buttock and foot. Leg hollow; opening at top covered with flat clay cap. Hole in either side near top. A low bump of clay on outside of leg at level of buttock, i.e. on right hip, perhaps attempt at modelling, perhaps a growth. Leg appears to be from immature person, not shapely or muscular. Knee and ankle bone barely shown. Hollow foot, flat sole. | |
Decoration: | White sizing, pinky and pink orange paint. | |
Material: | Fine buff to light orange clay. | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Complete; approximately fifty fragments mended and RIP; front part of foot missing; knee cap chipped off. Clay cap mostly RIP. | |
Manufacture: | F28 MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.820 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. of foot 0.164 | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 86, p. 125 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Images (5) |