Object card·SAL_4345·1968

Terracotta head fragment with mouth and neck, Zone south of rampart

Terracotta head fragment with mouth and neck, Zone south of rampart
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4345. "Terracotta head fragment with mouth and neck, Zone south of rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Head fragment (lower face, left side, with neck) of dark chamois clay, moulded hollow, height 7.8 cm, with a short labial channel indicated by an alveolus, a deep depression below the lower lip, a full chin, eyes barely marked, mouth entirely displaced to the left, parted, with thick lips and drooping corners, thick fleshy neck, and a conical corkscrew pendant earring; traces of carmine red paint in the mouth. Classical period, square K VI/δ4, Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory Tc_1588; 27 September 1968.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : Tête conservées carre : K VI/δ4 type :Coiffe non conservée forme : Visages num planche : PL_14 canal labial court, indiqué par une alvéole dépression profonde sous la lèvre inférieure menton plein nez très proche de la bouche dessin : D_0512 diapositives : C_4332 inv objet : Tc_1588 inv tessons : Tc_1588 negatif : 00714_06 negatif : 00714_01 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0184_p_0067 arrière convexe, lissé. H. 7,8. Yeux à peine marqués bouche complètement déportée vers la gauche, entr'ouverte, aux lèvres épaisses et aux commissures tombantes oreilles au contour en fort relief. Cou épais et gras. Boucle d'oreille : on ne voit pas de pastille, mais seulement un pendant conique en tire-bouchon. traces de peinture rouge carmin dans la bouche. Moulé creux Fragment de tête : bas de visage, côté gauche, avec le cou. Pâte chamois foncé

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