Object card·SAL_1966·1967

Terracotta lyre-player figurine, Classical, square K VI/γ3

Terracotta lyre-player figurine, Classical, square K VI/γ3
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1966. "Terracotta lyre-player figurine, Classical, square K VI/γ3". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Object card for a terracotta figurine of a lyre-player (Joueuse de Lyre), Classical period, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ3, Salamis, Cyprus; inventory Tc_0527, drawing D_2222, slide C_1871, notebook page 14. Incomplete: the head and neck are missing and the right foot is broken; buff (chamois) paste, H. 13.2 cm, l. 5 cm. The left side of the bust is broken along its full height, where the lyre was lost; the plectrum appears between the thumb and index finger below the left breast, the right arm folded across the front with the forearm rising strongly over the bust. A long tunic descends to the feet (apparently shod), forming a vertical depression between the straight legs, perhaps a simple central fold. Over the tunic, a drape crosses the body from left to right as a broad band edged with slight raised rims, its upper edge running exactly along the forearm, which appears bare. Inventory Tc_0527; 4 April 1967.

French, as on the record

Incomplète : il manque la tête et le cou pied droit brisé. Pâte chamois. H. 13,2 dessin : D_2222 diapositives : C_1871 inv objet : Tc_0527 inv tessons : Tc_0527 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0397_p_0115 côté gauche du buste cassé sur toute sa hauteur (lyre emportée) l. 5. La cassure du buste à gauche signale la présence d'une lyre, et le plectre apparaît entre le pouce et l'index sous le sein gauche, le bras droit étant replié par-devant, l'avant-bras remontant fortement sur le buste. Une tunique longue descend jusqu'aux pieds (lesquels sont apparemment chaussés), en formant une dépression verticale entre les jambes toutes droites (façon de représenter un simple pli central ?). Par-dessus la tunique, un drapé traverse le corps de gauche à droite en formant une large bande délimitée par des bords en légers bourrelets, dont le bord supérieur longe exactement l'avant-bras, qui semble nu. chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique carre : K VI/γ3 type :Joueuse de Lyre objet : Agents du culte : joueuses de lyre-cithare

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