Object card·SAL_1880·1967

Terracotta head fragment of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis

Terracotta head fragment of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1880. "Terracotta head fragment of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a terracotta head with calathos (upper part), from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ3, Classical period. Closed calathos, H. 12.9 cm, with a very small part of relief decoration preserved over 2.7 cm wide and 3.6 cm high, near the top: a tiny griffin with very reduced head and body, without wings, flanked by two small balls, and above it a row of ring-shaped pastilles with convex centres. Strongly damaged and broken; buff-pink clay with white-beige slip, moulded hollow, back flat and smoothed. Inventory Tc_0481; 31 March 1967.

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 arrière plat, lissé dessin : D_0624 diapositives : C_1790 inv objet : Tc_0481 inv tessons : Tc_0481 calathos fermé. H. 12,9. Infime partie de décor, conservée sur 2, 7 cm de large et 3,6 cm de ahut, à peu près au centre et près du sommet : un griffon tout petit, tête et corps très réduits, sans ailes, et, à leur place, deux petites boules negatif : 01964_06 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0098_p_0054 au-dessus, il y avait un rang de pastilles-anneaux à centre convexe. Fragment de tête : calathos (partie supérieure), fortement endommagé et cassé. Pâte chamois rosé soutenu et engobe blanc-beige. Moulé creux

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