Object card·SAL_2337·1967

Hollow-moulded terracotta bust of a standing woman, Salamis

Hollow-moulded terracotta bust of a standing woman, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2337. "Hollow-moulded terracotta bust of a standing woman, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Hollow-moulded bust figurine of a standing woman, Classical period, from the area south of the Rampart, square K VI/δ3, Salamis, Cyprus. Heavily worn, beige fabric, H. 6.3 cm; fragment of the right side of the bust showing the breast and upper arm without the back, l. 7.5 cm; some soft folds of a tunic are perhaps visible below the breast, and the upper arm lies against the body (it cannot be said whether it is clothed). Inventory Tc_0819; 7 April 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : Femme debout drapé indéterminé carre : K VI/δ3 forme : Figurines moulées creuses type :Bustes caracterique : Fragments : cous, seins, épaules, bras, mains grande usure. Pâte beige. Moulé creux. H. 6,3 diapositives : C_2223 inv objet : Tc_0819 inv tessons : Tc_0819 negatif : 02156_05 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0540_p_0153 Fragment de buste, côté droit : sein et haut du bras, sans l'arrière l. 7,5. On devine quelques plis souples de tunique sous le sein. Haut du bras plaqué au buste (on ne peut pas dire s'il est vêtu).

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