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 |