Object card·SAL_2339·1967

Fragment of a figurine of the Great Goddess holding a swan, Salamis

Fragment of a figurine of the Great Goddess holding a swan, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2339. "Fragment of a figurine of the Great Goddess holding a swan, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a bust of a figurine of the Great Goddess, with the left breast, head, neck and body of a swan; the figurine is of beige fabric and moulded hollow, H. 8.3 cm, l. 7.1 cm. A long, slender swan's neck wraps around the figurine's left breast, the swan standing upright in three-quarter view to the left with its body just beneath the breast, left wing spread and right wing folded; oblique, reversed drapery folds appear on either side of the bird. area south of the rampart, Classical period, square K VI/γ3, inventory Tc_0821; 8 April 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : La grande déesse sous ses divers aspects type :Déesse portant un animal, une fleur, un fruit, un objet carre : K VI/γ3 num planche : PL_09 caracterique : Déesse portant un oiseau forme : Animaux dessin : D_0569 diapositives : C_2225 Fragment de buste comportant le sein gauche, sans l'arrière, avec tête, cou et corps de cygne. Pâte beige. Moulé creux. H. 8,3 inv objet : Tc_0821 inv tessons : Tc_0821 negatif : 02156_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0268_p_0093 l. 7,1. Un col de cygne, long et fin, s'enroule autour du sein gauche de la figurine. Le cygne lui-même se présente dressé, de 3/4 gauche, le corps juste sous le sein, l'aile gauche déployée, l'aile droite repliée. De part et d'autre du volatile, on distingue des plis de drapé, obliques, inversés.

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