Object card·SAL_2351·1967

Male human protome figurine with hand-retouched nose, Salamis

Male human protome figurine with hand-retouched nose, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2351. "Male human protome figurine with hand-retouched nose, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Mould-made male human protome figurine of pink-beige clay, complete but with its outline partly broken, H. 7.6 cm, with the nose retouched by hand. The headdress (perhaps a turban) is decorated with a series of small incised circles, made by pressing the end of a hollow tube or stalk into the wet clay; a suspension hole is pierced at the centre of the top of the head. Inventory Tc_0830; negatives 02157_04, 05430_06, 06858_01 and 02157_03; 7 April 1967.

French, as on the record

inv objet : Tc_0830 inv tessons : Tc_0830 nez retouché à la main. H. 7,6. Le décor de la coiffe (turban ?), fait d'une série de petits cercles gravés, s'explique par un procédé technique assez simple, à savoir l'application, sur l'argile encore humide, de l'extrémité d'un tube ou d'une tige creuse, « comme celle d'un fétu ou d'une plume. negatif : 02157_04 negatif : 05430_06 negatif : 06858_01 negatif : 02157_03 pub : SAL_PUB_139891_XII_CAT_12_0681_p_0189 trou de suspension percé au sommet de la tête, bien au centre chantier : Zone au sud du rempart num planche : PL_34 objet : Figurines avec moulage carre : K VI/γ3 Complet type :Protomés humains forme : Protomés masculins pourtour brisé en partie. Pâte beige rose. Moulé dessin : D_3725 diapositives : C_2236

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