VMs: One-eyed one-breasted nymphs...?

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

Enough of this NLP stuff: has anyone noted that the zodiac nymphs not only 
appear to have been drawn with one breast (and had the other added in by a 
later owner), but also appear to have been drawn with one eye? Occasionally 
the faint (but well-drawn) original eye is still visible if you look carefully.

I probably wouldn't have picked up on this had I not read a passing mention 
a few days ago in Carlo Ginzburg's excellent "Ecstasies" on the 
mythological motif of the unilateral or "half-man", who had one arm, one 
leg, one eye, etc (pp.240-241, and possibly elsewhere). Ginzburg refers to 
R.Needham 'Unilateral Figures', in "Reconnaissances", Toronto 1980, 
pp.17-40, as well as to various others.

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....


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