Object card·SAL_1656·1967

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Classical

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Classical
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1656. "Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Classical". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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Head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis, Cyprus; object card with photograph. Classical period. Terracotta head with headdress, moulded hollow, beige fabric; nose damaged. Back smoothed, fragment with discreet join; H. 8.4 cm. Facial features effaced: only the short, sloping forehead, marked eyebrow arches, closed mouth and rounded chin remain. Hair slightly puffed, in a continuous frontal roll descending on the left side. Calathos set well back, forming at its base a flat band separated from the hair by a deep incision; decoration of large stamped pellets (4 preserved). Incomplete head: almost all the back is missing, and of the calathos, the right half and upper left edge. Sector: area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ3. Inventory M_0334

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique forme : La grande déesse à Calathos objet : Tête conservées type :Têtes avec coiffe caracterique : Calathoi décorés en relief carre : K VI/δ3 num planche : PL_02 nez abîmé. Pâte beige. Moulée creuse fragment d'arrière lissé, joint discret. H. 8,4. Traits du visage effacés : on ne distingue plus que le front court et fuyant, les arcades sourcilières marquées, la bouche, fermée, et le menton, arrondi. Cheveux légèrement gonflés, en bourrelet frontal continu qui descend sur le côté gauche. Calathos partant très en arrière, formant à sa base un bandeau plat séparé de la chevelure par une profonde incision dessin : D_0585 diapositives : C_1581 inv objet : Tc_0334 inv tessons : Tc_0334 negatif : 01979_04 negatif : 01979_05 negatif : 01088_06 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0042_p_0044 décor : grosses pastilles estampées (4 conservées). Tête incomplète : manquent presque tout l'arrière, et, du calathos, la moitié droite et le bord supérieur gauche

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