Corinth Object: V 49
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Object
Name:   V 49
Title:   VOTIVE LEFT LEG
Category:   Votive
Category Code:   V
Object Number:   49
Description:   Mouldmade lower left leg and foot. Hollow leg, opening narrows considerably as it goes down to join foot. Study leg; slight raised ridge for shin bone near top; thick ankle. Tendon and ankle bones and toes slightly modelled. Flat sole.
Decoration:   White slip, red paint.
Material:   Fine pink to yellow clay, with few, small, spherical, rounded, brown inclusions to rare, very large, angular, spherical, brown inclusions
Munsell Color:   7.5YR (pink) 8/4 to 10YR 8/6 (yellow)
Condition:   Fragment. 12 joining fragments, mended, broken very unevenly below knee; big toe and second toe missing. Only tiny areas of paint preserved though large patches of slip remaining.
Manufacture:   F28 U MM
Dimensions Preserved:   H. 0.396, L. of foot 0.230
Dimensions Restored:   W. 0.115
Area:   Asklepieion
Context:   NB122 P82, LOT 1931 032
Findspot Description:   Asklepieion, Votive Deposit II
Bibliography:   Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 79, p. 125
Site:   Asklepeion
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
References:   Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951
Monument: Asklepieion
Images (5)
Basket: NB122 P82