Object card·SAL_1844·1967

Terracotta face fragment with mouth, Classical period

Terracotta face fragment with mouth, Classical period
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1844. "Terracotta face fragment with mouth, Classical period". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a mould-made terracotta head showing a face and neck, lacking the back of the head, with chips to the nose and chin. Beige clay with a white slip, hollow-moulded, H. 7.5 cm; rounded lower face. The mouth is closed, with thick lips, the upper lip wider than the lower, which is narrower and fleshier, with a drooping right corner. Classical, from square K VI/δ3, area south of the rampart, Salamis. Inventory Tc_0458; 30 March 1967.

French, as on the record

epoque : Classique objet : Tête conservées carre : K VI/δ3 num planche : PL_07 type :Coiffe non conservée forme : Visages éclats au nez et au menton. Pâte beige soutenu et engobe blanc. Moulé creux. H. 7,5. Bas de visage arrondi Fragment de tête: visage, avec le cou, mais sans l'arrière : reste la moitié inférieure, la cassure passant au bas des yeux et, sur les côtés, avant l'oreille bouche fermée, aux lèvres épaisses, la lèvre supérieure étant plus large que la lèvre inférieure, au contraire étroite et plus charnue, à la commissure droite tombante. diapositives : C_1757 inv objet : Tc_0458 inv tessons : Tc_0458 negatif : 01986_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0181_p_0067 chantier : Zone au sud du rempart

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