| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 208 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE EYE | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 208 | |
| Description: | Handmade plaque with eye attached to it. Eye is enclosed by raised area incised to indicate lashes all around. Incised line curving below eye on plaque. | |
| Decoration: | White slip. | |
| Material: | Fine pink clay, with frequent, large, rounded to subrounded, tabular, black inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 5YR 7/4 to 7.5YR 7/4 (pink) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment preserving upper right hand corner of plaque, eye complete on plaque, patches of white slip remaining. | |
| Manufacture: | F28 HM | |
| Dimensions Actual: | L. of eye 0.024, H. of eye 0.014 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.041, L. 0.031 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Votive Deposit V | |
| Bibliography: | Roebuck 1951, Corinth 14, cat. 14, p. 120; W. Jaeger, "Eye Votives in Greek Antiquity," Documenta Opthalmologica 68, 1988. pp. 9-17, esp. pp. 11-12, fig. 3 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Publication: Roebuck, Corinth 14, 1951 Image: bw 2917 Image: bw 2005 029 25 Image: digital 2010 3387 |
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