Object card·SAL_2000·1967

Composite animal figurine with duck body, Salamis

Composite animal figurine with duck body, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2000. "Composite animal figurine with duck body, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Unmoulded figurine of a composite animal with a duck body, in pinkish fabric with traces of beige-yellow slip, decorated with red paint of varying intensity and traces of black paint; the head and tail tip are missing. Modelling is folded and solid; L. 7.2 cm. Found in the area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ3, Salamis, Cyprus; inventory Tc_0545; 5 April 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart num planche : PL_23 carre : K VI/γ3 objet : Figurine sans Moulage type :Animaux forme : « Monstres » negatif : 02113_03 peinture rouge plus ou moins vive traces de peinture noire. Modelé plié et plein. L. 7,2. Animal composite, avec un corps de canard. Incomplet : manquent la tête et le bout de la queue. Pâte rose + traces d'un engobe beige jaune caracterique : Animaux composites diapositives : C_1903 inv objet : Tc_0545 inv tessons : Tc_0545 pub : SAL_PUB_139891_XII_CAT_12_0437_p_0107

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