Object card·SAL_3510·1968

Crouching quadruped figurine with red paint, Salamis

Crouching quadruped figurine with red paint, Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3510. "Crouching quadruped figurine with red paint, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Complete figurine of a crouching animal, 7.5 cm long and 4.5 cm high, shown biting or eating something. It was probably entirely painted, as red paint appears in many places (notably at the ends of the forelegs, on the ears, the top of the neck and the back); the red paint is still vivid but survives only as traces. The long neck suggests a feline, although neither the head nor the body matches that kind of animal; it could equally be a dog if the neck were not so long. A solid, modelled piece with an added element (object or food); chips on the end of the right hind leg and the tail; white, porous fabric, like chalk. area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ4, Salamis, 7 September 1968. Inventory Tc_1028; negatives 00891_04, 00891_05, 00891_06, 00512_04; drawing D_0429; slide C_3349; plate PL_20.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart num planche : PL_20 carre : K VI/γ4 objet : Figurine sans Moulage forme : Quadrupèdes type :Animaux Complet caracterique : Les quadrupèdes divers L. 7,5. Animal accroupi, occupé à mordre ou à manger quelque chose. Cette figurine était sans doute entièrement peinte, car la peinture rouge apparaît un peu partout (notamment à l'extrémité des pattes antérieures, sur les oreilles, au haut du cou, sur le dos). La forme du cou fait penser à un félin, bien que ni la tête ni le corps ne correspondent à ce genre d'animal dessin : D_0429 diapositives : C_3349 inv objet : Tc_1028 inv tessons : Tc_1028 negatif : 00891_04 negatif : 00891_05 negatif : 00891_06 negatif : 00512_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139891_XII_CAT_12_0357_p_0089 il pourrait s'agir tout aussi bien d'un chien, si le cou n'était pas si long. peinture rouge encore vive, mais à l'état de traces élément rapporté (objet ou aliment). Modelé plein. H. 4,5 éclats au bout de la patte postérieure droite et de la queue. Pâte blanche, poreuse, comme de la craie

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