Only the front part of the head is preserved. The tip of the nose is broken off (the drill-holes for the nostrils survive). Chipping is evident sporadically on the surface of the marble. It depicts a mature woman with an oval smooth face, broad cheeks, almond-shaped eyes with wide lids, a thick nose, round chin and small mouth with fleshy lips. The eyebrows are long and thin, ending in sharp edges. Only a small part of the coiffure around the face is preserved. At the top of the forehead the characteristic loop of hair (nodus) of the period of the Late Republic and early principate of Augustus is formed, which would be then twisted into a braid that run across the crown of the head and join a bun placed low at the nape of the neck. The rest of the hair is combed in thin, elongated locks parallel to the face (rendered by shallow parallel incisions worked with the point). The whole structure of the coiffure is close to the iconography of Octavia, sister of Augustus (cf. e.g. the portrait-head in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, inv. no. 547, Th. Stephanidou-Tiveriou, N. Kaltsas eds., Εθνικό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο. Κατάλογος γλυπτών IV.1. Γλυπτά των ρωμαϊκών χρόνων: αυτοκρατορικά πορτρέτα, Athens, 139-141, cat. no. IV.1.37, figs. 151-154 [N. Kazakidi], period of Augustus). The head from Corinth should also be dated to the same period.
R. Winkes, Livia, Octavia, Iulia. Porträts und Darstellungen, Providence RI 1995, 221, no. 265 (Julia the Elder?); S.E. Wood, Imperial Women. A Study in Public Images, 40 B.C. - A.D. 68, Leiden 1999, 73–74 (Julia the Elder?); J. Pollini, “A New Portrait of Octavia and the Iconography of Octavia Minor and Julia Maior”, RΜ 109 (2002), 26–29, figs. 23-25 (Julia the Elder); C. De Grazia Vanderpool, “Roman Portraiture. The Many Faces of Corinth”, in C.K. Williams II, N. Bookidis eds., Corinth XX. Corinth, The Centenary, 1896-1996, Princeton 2003, 378–379, fig. 22.12 (Julia the Elder?; Augustan period, possibly from the Julian Basilica); C. De Grazia Vanderpool, in P.D. Scotton, C. De Grazia Vanderpool, C. Roncaglia, Corinth XXII. The Julian Basilica. Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy, Athens 2021, 348 with note 52 (Octavia?, period of Tiberius; possibly from the Julian Basilica; product of the same workshop as the portrait-statue of Augustus from the Julian Basilica); P. Konstantinidis, Γυναικείοι δυναστικοί εικονιστικοί ανδριάντες αυτοκρατορικής περιόδου από την Ελλάδα (τέλη 1ου αι. π.Χ. – 5ος αι. μ.Χ.), Athens 2024, 42, note 29, 249-250, no. 5, figs. 66-71 (private portrait); https://corinth.ascsa.net/id/corinth/object/s%201976%202?q=S%2076-2&t=&v=list&sort=&s=16
