Object card·SAL_4163·1968

Head of a Great Goddess figurine with calathos, Salamis

Head of a Great Goddess figurine with calathos, Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4163. "Head of a Great Goddess figurine with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a head of the Great Goddess with calathos, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4, Salamis. Classical period. The head wears a calathos decorated in high relief with about two groups of two crossed reclining S-shapes, the decoration applied and heavily re-incised; the hair is strongly puffed and rolled over a roll visible at the centre, and the lower edge of the calathos is indistinct. Fragment, mended, brownish fabric, hollow-moulded; H. 8 cm, l. 11 cm. Inventory Tc_1464; 23 September 1968.

French, as on the record

carre : K VI/δ4 num planche : PL_08 décor du calathos rapporté. H. 8 fortement réincisé recollé. Pâte brunâtre. Moulé creux dessin : D_0448 diapositives : C_4125 inv objet : Tc_1464 inv tessons : Tc_1464 negatif : 00663_05 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0081_p_0050 décor : il subsiste presque deux groupes de deux S couchés contrariés, en haut relief. Rare décor de calathos rapporté. Fragment de tête comportant une partie de la chevelure et du bas du calathos l. 11. Cheveux fortement gonflés et enroulés sur un boudin qui devait être visible au centre. Calathos au bord inférieur indistinct 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

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