| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 278 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE LEFT HAND | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 278 | |
| Description: | Mouldmade hollow left hand. Hand is fleshy with only wrist bone anatomically modelled; grooves incised in palm and palmar side of knuckles to indicate wrinkle lines. Fragment of first finger shows at break that fingers were added separately; thumb held apart from other fingers. | |
| Decoration: | Pale brown to orange slip, 5YR 6/8 (reddish yellow) | |
| Material: | Fine yellow clay, with rare, tabular to spherical, rounded, very small, white inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 10YR 7/6 | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment broken below wrist; all fingers and thumb missing. Surface slightly pitted, scratched. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 MM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | W. at wrist 0.048, Th. of clay at back of hand 0.005, Th. at wrist 0.036 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | L. 0.125; W. 0.066 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Kriebardi 1932 | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 72, p. 124 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Image: bw 5739 |
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