Object card·SAL_4098·1968

Wheeled figurine fragment with head and torso, SAL_4098

Wheeled figurine fragment with head and torso, SAL_4098
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4098. "Wheeled figurine fragment with head and torso, SAL_4098". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a male wheeled figurine (type with the wheel axle passing directly through the base), with the head (top missing, chin chipped) and upper left torso with the start of the arm; the turban is largely lost. Pink fabric with white slip; red paint still vivid, black paint very faded and turned pale brown; applied ears and turban, solid modelling, circular hole pierced high in the torso, H. 5.8 cm. Found in the area south of the rampart, Salamis, square K VI/β4. Diapositive C_4059, negative 00645_03, inventory Tc_1411; 21 September 1968.

French, as on the record

carre : K VI/β4 objet : Figurine sans Moulage type :Les figurines à roulettes forme : L'axe des roulettes traverse directement la base de la figurine caracterique : Les personnages masculins trou central du torse conservé en partie Fragment comprenant la tête (sans le sommet peinture rouge encore vive, peinture noire très effacée, qui a viré au brun pâle diapositives : C_4059 inv objet : Tc_1411 inv tessons : Tc_1411 negatif : 00645_03 pub : SAL_PUB_139891_XII_CAT_12_0589_p_0156 éléments rapportés : oreilles, turban. Modelé plein. Trou circulaire percé haut dans le torse. H. 5,8. éclat au menton) et la partie supérieure gauche du torse avec le départ du bras turban emporté aux 3/4. Pâte rose + engobe blanc chantier : Zone au sud du rempart

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