Object card·SAL_4057·1968

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4057. "Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Head of the Great Goddess in a calathos, Classical period, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4. Moulded hollow terracotta with red fabric and white slip, H. 4.6 cm; the face survives only as the left almond-shaped eye and the nose, the hair forms a continuous roll clearly defined on the forehead, and the short, rather poorly made calathos has a row of six flattened pellets and pinched side flaps brought forward; a convex pellet earring with a conical pendant is visible on the right. The head is incomplete, broken below the line of the nose; the back is well smoothed. Inventory Tc_1381; 20 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 caracterique : Calathoi décorés en relief carre : K VI/δ4 arrière bien lissé facture grossière. H. 4,6. Du visage l’on ne discerne plus que l'œil gauche en amande et le nez. Cheveux en bourrelet continu, nettement délimité sur le front. Calathos court (plutôt raté), bord inférieur indistinct, pans latéraux joints pincés aux doigts et ramenés vers l'avant diapositives : C_4007 inv objet : Tc_1381 inv tessons : Tc_1381 negatif : 00637_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0056_p_0046 décor : une rangée de 6 pastilles aplaties. Boucle d'oreille : pastille convexe et pendant conique, visible à droite. Tête incomplète : manque la partie inférieure (cassure en-dessous de la ligne du nez). Pâte rouge et engobe blanc. Moulée creuse

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