Object card·SAL_4355·1968

Terracotta bust of a standing draped woman, Salamis

Terracotta bust of a standing draped woman, Salamis
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4355. "Terracotta bust of a standing draped woman, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Hollow-moulded terracotta bust of a standing draped woman, Classical period, from square K VI/δ4 in the area south of the rampart at Salamis; fragments of neck, breasts, shoulders, arms and hands survive, with the back smoothed and the surface perhaps burnt. Right arm fragment: from upper arm to shoulder, forearm broken before the wrist; pink fabric with grey-green slip; width 4.5 cm; the arm is folded across the chest at a right angle, with serpentine parotid locks falling on the shoulder and a fold in the elbow hollow. Height 13 cm. Inventory Tc_1597; slide C_4343; negative 00753_03; 27 September 1968.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : Femme debout drapé indéterminé carre : K VI/δ4 forme : Figurines moulées creuses type :Bustes caracterique : Fragments : cous, seins, épaules, bras, mains arrière plat, lissé. H. 13 surface brûlée ? Moulé creux diapositives : C_4343 inv objet : Tc_1597 inv tessons : Tc_1597 negatif : 00753_03 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0565_p_0149 Fragment de bras droit : haut du bras jusqu'à l'épaule et avant-bras cassé avant le poignet, avec l'arrière. Pâte rose et engobe gris vert l. 4,5. Bras droit replié par-devant sur le buste, à angle droit. Retombée de mèches parotides serpentines sur l'épaule. Pli dans le creux du coude.

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