Object card·SAL_3824·1968

Terracotta head fragment of Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis

Terracotta head fragment of Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3824. "Terracotta head fragment of Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Upper fragment of a head, without the back, of pink clay, moulded hollow, with incised retouching for the hair; H. 6.7 cm. On the left side of the face: low forehead, upper eyelid of the eye in a slightly arched bulge, marked but low-relief brow ridge. Hair parted in a distinct median parting into regularly undulating bands (12 undulations), running right to left on one side and in the opposite direction on the other, where only the start survives; the base of a flat, well-defined band of headdress rises vertically (perhaps the base of a calathos). Classical period; Salamis, area south of the rampart; inventory Tc_1204; negatives 01089_04 and 00594_03; drawing D_0509; slides C_3729; SAL_3824; 16 September 1968.

French, as on the record

caracterique : Calathoi : Fragments Fragment du haut d'une tête, sans l'arrière. Pâte rose. Moulé creux retouches par incisions pour la chevelure. H. 6,7. Côté gauche du visage : front bas carre : K VI/?4 dessin : D_0509 diapositives : C_3729 inv objet : Tc_1204 inv tessons : Tc_1204 negatif : 01089_04 negatif : 00594_03 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0132_p_0059 paupière supérieure de l'œil en bourrelet, peu arquée. Cheveux répartis de chaque côté d'une raie médiane (distincte) en bandeaux ondulés régulièrement (12 ondulations), de droite à gauche d'un côté, en sens inverse de l'autre côté (dont on a le départ). Ii reste la base d'une coiffe en un bandeau plat bien délimité qui se dresse verticalement (base de calathos ?). arcade sourcilière marquée, mais en faible relief chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique forme : La grande déesse à Calathos objet : Tête conservées type :Têtes avec coiffe

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