Object card·SAL_3518·1968

Bearded standing figurine of 'Assyrian type', Salamis

Bearded standing figurine of 'Assyrian type', Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3518. "Bearded standing figurine of 'Assyrian type', Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Moulded solid standing figurine of the bearded 'Assyrian type', H. 7.9 cm, incomplete and lacking the lower half of the body, with the front damaged and the right hand and left arm broken; chamois fabric with beige-grey slip, face moulded and back smoothed by hand, hair, beard, cap hem and coat braid re-incised, and numerous traces of red paint still bright in places, perhaps painted red over the back too (?). Square K VI/γ4, south of the rampart, Salamis; negatives 00514_01, 00514_02, 05430_03, 05430_05; slide C_3357. Inventory Tc_1035; 7 September 1968.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart num planche : PL_32 objet : Figurines avec moulage carre : K VI/γ4 type :Personnages barbus de « type assyrien » forme : Personnages debout caracterique : Le type Incomplet : manque la moitié inférieure du corps front abîmé. Pâte chamois + engobe beige gris main droite et bras gauche brisés diapositives : C_3357 inv objet : Tc_1035 inv tessons : Tc_1035 negatif : 00514_02 negatif : 05430_03 negatif : 05430_05 negatif : 00514_01 pub : SAL_PUB_139891_XII_CAT_12_0645_p_0175 traces nombreuses de peinture rouge, encore vive par endroits éléments réincisés : cheveux, barbe, pans du bonnet, galon du manteau. Figurine moulée pleine : face moulée, revers lissé à la main et bien égalisé. H. 7,9. Figurine entièrement peinte en rouge (revers compris ?).

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