Votive Hand & Arm

Item

Title

Votive Hand & Arm

Inventory Number

A0261

Description

Upraised left hand & arm to shoulder. Four unarticulated, contiguous fingers stretched out straight w large thumb projecting out at angle w large pads modeled at base of palm; back plain & unarticulated. From wrist tapered below hand arm of plano-convex section flares out uniformly to end where it expands asymmetrically to ?shoulder. Coated all over w red paint.

State of Preservation

Shoulder extension broken off, but part of original edge of arm pres; tips of fingers chipped. Surfaces worn and much of paint worn off.

Height

22.5 cm

Width

5.35 cm

Color

Clay body 7.5YR 7/4 (pink); core 7.5YR N5/ (gray); paint 7.5R 6/8 (light red).

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