Object card·SAL_3423·1968

Moulded pig figurine, Salamis, square K VI/β4

Moulded pig figurine, Salamis, square K VI/β4
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3423. "Moulded pig figurine, Salamis, square K VI/β4". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Figurine of a pig, unmoulded, with traces of bright red paint, incomplete: the front legs and left hind leg are missing, and the right ear, left flank and right hind leg are broken. Incised details show eyes, nostrils, mouth and ear; the modelling is folded. L. 8.9 cm, H. 4.8 cm. Brown fabric with a pinkish-beige slip; from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/β4, Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory Tc_0987; 3 September 1968.

French, as on the record

forme : Quadrupèdes type :Animaux caracterique : Les porcins traces de peinture rouge encore vive L. 8,9. Incomplet : manquent les pattes antérieures et la patte postérieure gauche diapositives : C_3262 inv objet : Tc_0987 inv tessons : Tc_0987 negatif : 00437_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139891_XII_CAT_12_0353_p_0088 éléments incisés : yeux, narines, bouche, oreille. Modelé plié. H. 4,8 oreille droite, flanc gauche et patte postérieure droite brisés. Pâte brune + engobe beige rose chantier : Zone au sud du rempart num planche : PL_19 carre : K VI/β4 objet : Figurine sans Moulage

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