Object card·SAL_2412·1967

Moulded female bust fragment, Classical period

Moulded female bust fragment, Classical period
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2412. "Moulded female bust fragment, Classical period". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a hollow-moulded bust of a standing woman, right side, with shoulder, arm and breast, broken at the wrist; the arm hangs along the body, bare where the tunic leaves it, with four snake bracelets visible on the upper arm. The drapery is a chiton or tunic that covers the shoulder and moulds the chest, with flat vertical folds ending in cups at the waist and finer rounded folds between the breasts; a bracelet at the wrist perhaps. Very small fragment of the back preserved. Pale pink fabric and dark beige slip (?). Hollow-moulded. H. 13.3. Area south of the rampart, Salamis, Cyprus, Classical period. Inventory Tc_0877; negatives 01036_01 and 02056_02; slide C_2294; square K VI/γ3; 10 April 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : Femme debout drapé indéterminé carre : K VI/γ3 forme : Figurines moulées creuses type :Bustes caracterique : Drapé du dessous : chiton, tunique negatif : 01036_01 Fragment de buste, côté droit, avec l'épaule, le bras, cassé au poignet, et le sein l. 7. Bras pendant le long du corps, laissé à nu par la tunique qui laisse ainsi voir 4 anneaux de bracelet-serpent sur le haut du bras. Elle recouvre juste l'épaule et moule la poitrine en formant à sa gauche des plis plats verticaux qui se terminent en godets à la taille, et, entre les seins, de petits plis plus fins et arrondis. Bracelet au poignet? diapositives : C_2294 inv objet : Tc_0877 inv tessons : Tc_0877 negatif : 02056_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0470_p_0139 infime fragment de l'arrière conservé. Pâte rose pâle et engobe beige soutenu (?). Moulé creux. H. 13,3

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