Object card·SAL_3587·1968

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, area south of the rampart

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, area south of the rampart
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3587. "Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, area south of the rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Head of a mould-made hollow terracotta figurine of the Great Goddess wearing a calathos, incomplete and without the neck, with the calathos broken; the back is smoothed. Height 8.1 cm for the open calathos; the face is worn with features almost wholly effaced, the surface very worn and cracked, and the brownish fabric flaking. Hair puffed out in large wavy locks held by a thin ribbon, with a small lock and pendant at the ear. Classical period; square K VI/γ4, area south of the rampart, Salamis; inventory Tc_1053; slide C_3426; negative 00523_05; 9 September 1968.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique forme : La grande déesse à Calathos objet : Tête conservées type :Têtes avec coiffe carre : K VI/γ4 caracterique : Calathoi : Fragments arrière lissé surface très usée et fendillée. Pâte brunâtre, qui se délite. Moulée creuse Tête incomplète, sans le cou : calathos cassé diapositives : C_3426 inv objet : Tc_1053 inv tessons : Tc_1053 negatif : 00523_05 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0131_p_0059 calathos ouvert. H. 8,1. Visage apparemment arrondi, mais aux traits presque totalement effacés : on devine vaguement les arcades sourcilières et le nez, très abîmé. Cheveux gonflés, partant sur les côtés en grosses mèches ondulées formant au centre une sorte de coque, et retenus par un mince ruban. Reste de calathos, à bord inférieur indistinct, mais formant à sa base un large bandeau, et descendant en un pan latéral très important. A l'emplacement de l'oreille, petite mèche et pendant.

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