Object card·SAL_3789·1968

Terracotta bust fragment of a standing woman, Salamis

Terracotta bust fragment of a standing woman, Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3789. "Terracotta bust fragment of a standing woman, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a bust, left side, with the shoulder, upper arm and breast of a standing woman draped in an indeterminate garment; the himation or cloak is placed well back from the shoulder and falls straight, leaving some oblique folds of tunic visible toward the right, and a long twisted parotid lock falls onto the shoulder over the cloak. Hollow-moulded, with a smoothed back and a clean join bearing a thumb mark on its right; chamois-coloured fabric with a light beige slip; H. 10.8 cm, l. 7.2 cm (back)/4 cm (front). Classical period, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ4; inventory Tc_1178; slide C_3695; negative 00580_01. 14 September 1968.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : Femme debout drapé indéterminé carre : K VI/γ4 forme : Figurines moulées creuses caracterique : Drapé du dessus : himation, manteau type :Bustes Fragment de buste, côté gauche, avec l'épaule, le haut du bras et le sein arrière lissé, joint net portant une trace de pouce sur sa droite. H. 10,8 diapositives : C_3695 inv objet : Tc_1178 negatif : 00580_01 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0496_p_0142 arrière conservé sur une plus grande largeur que la face. Pâte chamois soutenu et engobe beige clair. Moulé creux l. 7,2 (arrière)/4 (face). Manteau posé très en arrière de l'épaule et descendant droit, en laissant voir quelques plis obliques de tunique orientés vers la droite. Retombée d'une longue mèche parotide torsadée sur l'épaule, donc sur le manteau.

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