Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Object | |
Name: | V 116 | |
Title: | VOTIVE CHEST | |
Category: | Votive | |
Category Code: | V | |
Object Number: | 116 | |
Description: | Mouldmade male chest; three quarters chest and right arm to elbow, neck to waist; arm and body attached to each other. Hollow, hole in top, opening closed at bottom of chest and arm. Right arm at base is hollow as if for insertion of lower arm projecting forward. Chest, nipple, abdomen modelled. Modelling of back with projecting right shoulder blade and hollow on other side of spine may represent deformity or perhaps profile view only intended. | |
Decoration: | Pink paint on bottom. | |
Material: | Fine light orange clay. | |
Condition: | Complete or intact. Complete; approximately 30 fragments mended, RIP. | |
Manufacture: | F28 M MM | |
Dimensions Actual: | H. 0.242, W. 0.251 | |
Area: | Asklepieion | |
Findspot Description: | Asklepieion | |
Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 17, p. 121 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Monument: Asklepieion Images (7) |