| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 198 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE FEMALE BREAST | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 198 | |
| Description: | Hollow handmade, possibly coiled, breast, full and rounded with a hemispherical shape, pronounced button-shaped nipple which is depressed in center. Edge rounded with traces of clay where applied to missing plaque. | |
| Decoration: | White slip over all with yellow or red paint on breast, red paint on nipple. | |
| Material: | Fine reddish yellow clay with common, large to very large, rounded to subrounded, spherical, black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/6 (reddish yellow) | |
| Condition: | Missing parts. Single fragment, missing most of bottom edge; surface flaking but with large areas of slip and paint remaining. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 F HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Diam. 0.075, Diam. of nipple 0.020, H. 0.045 | |
| 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 |
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