Object card·SAL_4068·1968

Terracotta figurine fragment of goddess with bird, Salamis

Terracotta figurine fragment of goddess with bird, Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4068. "Terracotta figurine fragment of goddess with bird, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a bust of a goddess, without the back, with the bird; the top of the hand is broken off. Bright pink fabric with white slip, slightly green; mould-made, hollow. Dim.: 8 x 8.1. Same hand position as on Sal_5000, and an identical bird in form and position. The bust is draped in a tunic with many pleats; a necklace of very small tightly set beads with large oval pendants (one pendant for every 2 or 3 beads), and a bracelet at the wrist. Inventory Tc_1391; sector south of the rampart, square K VI/γ4, Classical period; 20 September 1968.

French, as on the record

objet : La grande déesse sous ses divers aspects type :Déesse portant un animal, une fleur, un fruit, un objet carre : K VI/γ4 num planche : PL_09 caracterique : Déesse portant un oiseau forme : Animaux Fragment de buste, sans l'arrière, avec l'oiseau dessin : D_0535 diapositives : C_4018 inv objet : Tc_1391 inv tessons : Tc_1391 negatif : 00639_03 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0255_p_0091 dessus de la main emporté. Pâte rose vif et engobe blanc, légèrement verte. Moulé creux. Dim. : 8 x 8,1. Même position de la main que sur Sal_5000, et oiseau identique, dans sa forme et dans sa position. Buste drapé dans une tunique toute plissée. Dans un décolleté plus arrondi, collier de toutes petites perles serrées à gros pendants ovales (à raison d'un pour 2 ou 3 perles). Bracelet au poignet. chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique

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