Object card·SAL_1854·1967

Base fragment of a Goddess with Deer figurine

Base fragment of a Goddess with Deer figurine
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1854. "Base fragment of a Goddess with Deer figurine". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a base with the front left corner bearing a foot and cloven animal hooves; the object is a mould-made figurine of the Goddess with Deer type, Classical period, from the area south of the rampart at Salamis, square K VI/γ2. Chamois-coloured fabric, moulded hollow, H. 9 cm, l. 7 cm; the base is rectangular but rounds off at the corner, and only the tip of the right foot survives, with forked deer hooves spread slightly apart to the left of the feet. Inventory Tc_0464; 30 March 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : La grande déesse sous ses divers aspects carre : K VI/γ2 caracterique : Biche debout à côté de la déesse, à droite ou à gauche forme : Déesse accompagnée d'une biche type :Déesse à la biche diapositives : C_1767 inv objet : Tc_0464 inv tessons : Tc_0464 negatif : 01984_03 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0228_p_0086 Fragment de base, avec l'angle antérieur gauche portant un pied et des sabots d'animal. Pâte chamois. Moulé creux. H. 9 l. 7. Base rectangulaire, mais qui s'arrondit à l'angle. On ne voit plus que le bout du pied droit (l'autre pied devait être en retrait), et, à gauche des pieds, des sabots fourchus de biche, légèrement écartés.

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