Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 196 | |
Title: | VOTIVE FEMALE BREAST | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 196 | |
Description: | Hollow, possibly wheelmade, breast, slightly oblong in shape but generally full and round and hemispherical, button-shaped nipple. Interior with concentric rings scratched in clay surface, edge rounded. | |
Decoration: | White slip. | |
Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay, with few, large to very large, rounded to subrounded, spherical to platy, gray-brown inclusions. | |
Munsell Color: | Surface: 7.5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow), Core: 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Two joining fragments, mended, with triangular piece missing near base. Traces of slip remain on clay surface. | |
Manufacture: | F28 F WM? | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.047 | |
Dimensions Preserved: | Diam. of nipple 0.014 | |
Dimensions Restored: | Diam. 0.086 | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Context: | NB122 P198, LOT 1931 035 | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Votive Deposit V | |
Site: | Asklepeion | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Monument: Asklepieion Basket: NB122 P198 |