Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 171 | |
Title: | VOTIVE RIGHT HAND | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 171 | |
Description: | Mouldmade, life size or larger, right hand and wrist; fingers added. Hand is hollow; open end of wrist closed with a clay cap, smooth joint. Bottom and top of wrist pierced with a hole (Diam. 0.006), holes not aligned. Thumb is held straight and in toward palm. Second and fourth fingers curve in slightly. Almost no modelling. | |
Decoration: | White slip. | |
Material: | Fine pink clay, with rare, large to very large, spherical, rounded, white inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/4 to 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Complete hand; thumb, second and fourth finger mended, fourth finger broken; little finger and middle finger missing; traces of slip remaining. | |
Manufacture: | F28 MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | W. 0.090 | |
Dimensions Restored: | L. 0.217, L. of thumb 0.060, L. of second finger 0.089 | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Votive Deposit V | |
Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 65, p. 124 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Images (6) |