Votive Hand & Arm

Title: Votive Hand & Arm
Inventory Number: A0261
Date Acquired: 1909
Source: Magoffin
Provenance: Italy
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).
Notes: Slide Coll
Type: terracotta
Material: fired clay