Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 252 | |
Title: | VOTIVE HAND | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 252 | |
Description: | Mouldmade right hand. Fingers, hand and wrist solid except for shallow hollowed out area at end of wrist. Four holes pierce wrist at hollow, one through each side and one top and bottom. Hand is flat, fingers held straight out. Very slight modelling on thumb and second finger. | |
Decoration: | Black and red paint. Wrist painted black; palm has incisions for line, painted red; joints of fingers on inside painted red; outline of nails painted black. | |
Material: | Yellow buff fine clay. | |
Condition: | Missing parts. Complete hand, right edge of wrist broken off; third, fourth and little finger broken; second finger and thumb broken off and mended; thumb and second finger nails chipped. | |
Manufacture: | F28 MM | |
Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.214 | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 64, p. 124 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Image: bw 5738 Image: bw 2006 003 23a Image: bw 2006 003 32a |