| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Object | |
| Name: | V 31 | |
| Title: | VOTIVE LARGE-SCALE LEFT EYE AND SIDE OF HEAD | |
| Category: | Votive | |
| Category Code: | V | |
| Object Number: | 31 | |
| Description: | Life-sized hollow head, probably female, with hair drawn back from face. Hair rendered by irregular scraped channels. Large eye, relatively shallow-set beneath eyebrow. Arch below eyebrow puffy. Eye well-shaped with pronounced tear duct. Heavy upper lid which stands out from both brow bone and eyeball, meets lower lid at outer corner with upper line of it going beyond corner. Lower lid continues into concave pocket beneath eye. Pupil flat. Groove offsets upper lid from brow bone. Possibly mouldmade since thickness is consistent, interior smooth, but with much retouching. | |
| Decoration: | White slip. | |
| Material: | Fine pinkish white clay, no visible inclusions. | |
| Munsell Color: | 7.5YR 8/2 (pinkish white) | |
| Condition: | Fragment. Single fragment, eye and left side of head, broken all around; patches of slip remaining. | |
| Dimensions Actual: | Th. of brow 0.012-0.022, L. of eye 0.028 | |
| Dimensions Preserved: | H. 0.060, W. 0.098 | |
| Area: | Asklepieion | |
| Context: | NB122 P40, LOT 1931 031 | |
| Findspot Description: | Asklepieion, Votive Deposit I, LL:35 -1m | |
| Site: | Asklepeion | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| References: | Monument: Asklepieion Basket: NB122 P40 |
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