Object card·SAL_1947·1967

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_1947. "Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Classical". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Complete head with neck, of beige-pink fabric and white-grey slip, hollow-moulded. Straight nose continuing the line of the forehead; hair puffed into a continuous frontal roll; calathos with a slightly thickened lower edge bearing a row of 8 small convex pastilles as decoration. Back poorly smoothed, with a vent hole beginning at the top, through which the calathos is open. H. 6.6 cm. Elongated face with worn features (except the very marked corners of the nose and lips), which makes it appear even narrower. Found in the area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ3. Classical period. Inventory Tc_0519; 4 April 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/γ3 Tête complète, avec le cou. Pâte beige rosé et engobe blanc gris. Moulée creuse nez droit, dans le prolongement du front. Cheveux gonflés en bourrelet frontal continu. Calathos au bord inférieur en léger bourrelet, sur lequel apparaît le décor : une rangée de 8 petites pastilles convexes. diapositives : C_1853 inv objet : Tc_0519 inv tessons : Tc_0519 negatif : 01998_06 negatif : 02000_06 negatif : 01998_01 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0055_p_0046 arrière mal lissé, trou d'évent commençant à son sommet, d'où calathos ouvert. H. 6,6. Visage allongé, aux traits effacés (sauf les commissures du nez et des lèvres, très marquées), ce qui le fait paraître encore plus étroit

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