Object card·SAL_2032·1967

Head of the great goddess with calathos, Salamis

Head of the great goddess with calathos, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2032. "Head of the great goddess with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Terracotta head of the great goddess with an open calathos, Classical period, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ3. The calathos is H. 10 cm, with a visible ear forming a fine curve, and hair in distinct strands (regular striations), puffed and drawn back in a thick band; the lower edge of the calathos is indistinct. Only the left half of the calathos survives, with hair, ear and the corresponding back part; the fabric is pink with a well-preserved white slip, the back is smoothed, and the mould is hollow. The calathos is decorated with flat, splayed vertical tongues in relief, delimited by a fine incision that does not reach the top; a relief on the earlobe suggests an earring. Inventory Tc_0562; 6 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 arrière lissé calathos ouvert. H. 10. Oreille apparente, dessinant une jolie courbe. Cheveux aux mèches distinctes (stries régulières), gonflés et tirés en arrière en un épais bandeau. Calathos au bord inférieur indistinct Fragment de tête : il ne subsiste que la moité gauche du calathos, avec cheveux et oreille, et la partie arrière correspondante. Pâte rose et engobe blanc bien conservé. Moulée creuse diapositives : C_1934 inv objet : Tc_0562 inv tessons : Tc_0562 negatif : 02120_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0121_p_0058 décor de languettes verticales en relief plat, évasées, et délimitées par une fine incision qui ne va pas jusqu’au sommet. Un relief sur le lobe de l'oreille laisse supposer une boucle.

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