Object card·SAL_4154·1968

Terracotta head fragment with relief-decorated calathos, Salamis

Terracotta head fragment with relief-decorated calathos, Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4154. "Terracotta head fragment with relief-decorated calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a head from a figure of the Great Goddess with calathos, the lower left edge of the calathos with the corresponding back, made of pink clay with white-grey slip surviving only on the face, moulded hollow; back scraped, H. 9.9. The calathos has a distinct lower edge in a thick bead, decorated with a row of large pastilles with central dot and a row of opening lotus flowers, their stems caught between the large pastilles and separated from one another by very small flat pastilles attached to the large ones. area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ4, Classical period, inventory Tc_1455; 23 September 1968.

French, as on the record

dessin : D_0449 diapositives : C_4116 inv objet : Tc_1455 inv tessons : Tc_1455 negatif : 00653_06 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0080_p_0050 arrière râclé. H. 9,9. Calathos au bord inférieur distinct, en gros bourrelet décor : une rangée de grosses pastilles à point central et une rangée de fleurs de lotus s'épanouissant, leur tige prise entre ces grosses pastilles, tout en étant séparées les unes des autres par de toutes petites pastilles plates accolées aux grosses. Fragment de tête : bord inférieur gauche d'un calathos, avec l'arrière correspondant. Pâte rose et engobe blanc gris conservé seulement sur la face. Moulé creux 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/γ4

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