Object card·SAL_2290·1967

Terracotta bust fragment of a standing woman, Salamis

Terracotta bust fragment of a standing woman, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2290. "Terracotta bust fragment of a standing woman, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Hollow-moulded beige clay fragment of a neck with hair, seen from the left and from behind, from a standing draped female bust of Classical period; H. 6.6 cm, l. 4.5 cm. The fragment preserves only the fall of a thick serpentine parotid lock, which encloses two rather shapeless, swollen necklace pendants, the one at far left retaining its supporting bead; sector south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4, inventory Tc_0781, 8 April 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : Femme debout drapé indéterminé carre : K VI/δ4 forme : Figurines moulées creuses type :Bustes caracterique : Fragments : cous, seins, épaules, bras, mains negatif : 02147_05 Fragment de cou, côté gauche avec cheveux, et avec l'arrière. Pâte beige. Moulé creux. H. 6,6 diapositives : C_2178 inv objet : Tc_0781 inv tessons : Tc_0781 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0533_p_0146 l. 4,5. Le fragment ne comporte que la retombée d'une épaisse mèche parotide serpentine, qui prend dans ses méandres deux pendants de collier, plutôt informes et renflés, celui de l'extrême gauche ayant conservé sa perle de soutien.

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