Object card·SAL_3879·1968

Moulded goddess fragment with hand, Salamis south of rampart

Moulded goddess fragment with hand, Salamis south of rampart
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3879. "Moulded goddess fragment with hand, Salamis south of rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Hollow-moulded fragment in chamois-coloured clay, surface and interior blackened, Classical period, showing a standing woman holding a fold of drapery or a piece of cloth; back well preserved but poorly smoothed, H. 12 cm, w. 7.2 cm. The fragment preserves the lower right edge and part of a large hand with a thick thumb and undifferentiated thick fingers, the fingers broken except thumb and index, with a large clay burr near the fingers, and between the thumb and the folded index a large round fold curving downward. Salamis, area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4; slide C_3785, negative 00591_06; Inventory Tc_1237; 17 September 1968.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : La grande déesse sous ses divers aspects type :Déesse portant un animal, une fleur, un fruit, un objet carre : K VI/δ4 forme : Porteuses d'offrandes indéterminées caracterique : Femme debout retenant un pli de drapé ou un pan de tissu arrière conservé. Pâte chamois soutenu, surface et intérieur tout noircis. Moulé creux arrière mal lissé. H. 12 doigts brisés, sauf pouce et index grosse bavure d'argile près des doigts diapositives : C_3785 inv objet : Tc_1237 inv tessons : Tc_1237 negatif : 00591_06 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0344_p_0103 Fragment de bord inférieur droit, avec une partie de la main l. 7,2. Grosse main à gros pouce et à gros doigts non différenciés. Entre le pouce et l'index replié, serrés l'un contre l'autre, apparaît un gros pli rond, en courbe descendante.

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