Object card·SAL_3819·1968

Figurine of the Great Goddess with a deer, Salamis

Figurine of the Great Goddess with a deer, Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3819. "Figurine of the Great Goddess with a deer, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Object card for figurine SAL_3819 showing the Great Goddess in her various aspects, type Goddess with a deer, from the area south of the rampart, Classical period, square K VI/γ4. The deer stands upright on its hind legs alongside the figurine; the figure is upright in left profile, on its hind legs, with the thigh of the back leg emphasised by the effort; fragment of the left edge of the figurine with the back preserved, height 13.5 cm, width 6.8 cm. Chamois fabric, hollow mould-made, back smoothed, join scraped; short pointed curled tail; the start of the forelegs is discernible; leg slightly bent, with the rounded knee visible. Inventory Tc_1199; slide C_3724; negative 00593_03; 16 September 1968.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : La grande déesse sous ses divers aspects carre : K VI/γ4 forme : Déesse accompagnée d'une biche type :Déesse à la biche caracterique : Biche dressée sur ses pattes postérieures le long de la figurine l. 6,8. Corps dressé verticalement, de profil gauche, sur ses pattes postérieures, l'effort faisant ressortir la cuisse arrière lissé, joint râclé. H. 13,5 patte de gauche légèrement en avant de l'autre diapositives : C_3724 inv objet : Tc_1199 inv tessons : Tc_1199 negatif : 00593_03 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0196_p_0082 Fragment de bord gauche de figurine, arrière conservé, avec corps d'animal sur la jambe. Pâte chamois. Moulé creux petite queue pointue, frisée. On devine le départ des pattes antérieures. Jambe légèrement fléchie, où l'on distingue l'arrondi du genou.

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