Object card·SAL_2390·1967

Standing female figurine with pendent arms, Salamis

Standing female figurine with pendent arms, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2390. "Standing female figurine with pendent arms, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Object card SAL_2390, Salamis, area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ3; Classical period. Incomplete standing female figurine, draped, of the bust type with arms hanging away from the body; head, neck, feet and right arm missing. Dark red fabric with brown-beige surface; solid mould-made figurine, H. 17.3 cm, l. 8.1 cm. The arm is reduced to a rectangular extension of the bust, the body pillar-like; the tunic has folds radiating from the breasts and accordion-like folds between breasts and waist, with two vertical median folds below. A cape-like mantle seems to lie over the shoulders, and at the base of the neck appears a necklace of alternating beads and elongated pendants. Inventory Tc_0860; photograph 02063_04, slide C_2273, plate PL_13; 10 April 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : Femme debout drapé indéterminé num planche : PL_13 carre : K VI/γ3 type :Bustes caracterique : Bras pendants écartés du corps forme : Figurines moulées pleines Incomplète : manquent la tête, le cou, et les pieds, ainsi que le bras droit. Pâte rouge foncé, surface beige brun. Moulée pleine. H. 17,3 diapositives : C_2273 inv objet : Tc_0860 inv tessons : Tc_0860 negatif : 02063_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0415_p_0132 l. 8,1. Bras réduit à une sorte de prolongement rectangulaire du buste. Corps-pilier. Mais la tunique présente des plis irradiant des seins, qu'elle moule, et retombe, entre les seins et la taille, en gros plis « accordéon », par-dessous lesquels descendent jusqu'en bas deux plis verticaux médians. Il semble qu'un manteau soit posé en cape sur les épaules. Au bas du cou, apparaît un collier fait de perles et de pendants allongés alternés.

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