Object card·SAL_4443·1968

Terracotta head fragment with face and neck, Classical

Terracotta head fragment with face and neck, Classical
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4443. "Terracotta head fragment with face and neck, Classical". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a head, face with neck, back missing; broken at the level of the left eye and right ear. Classical period. Pink fabric, mould-made hollow. Small pit below the lower lip; high, fleshy mouth slightly parted, upper lip wider than the lower; eyelids of the right eye in thick folds, eye rather deep-set; full cheek; thick, high neck. Long nose, very slightly displaced to the right; surface of the nose, left cheek and chin torn away. Earring: concave disc and conical pendant overlapping the disc on one side, with a splayed point on the other. H. 10.1 cm. Inventory Tc_1644; 1 October 1968. Square K VI/δ4, area south of the rampart, Salamis; slide C_4429, negative 00768_02.

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 petite alvéole sous la lèvre inférieure bouche haute et charnue, entr'ouverte, la lèvre supérieure étant plus large que la lèvre inférieure diapositives : C_4429 paupières de l'œil droit en bourrelets, œil assez enfoncé inv objet : Tc_1644 inv tessons : Tc_1644 negatif : 00768_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0185_p_0068 joue pleine. Cou épais et haut. Boucle d'oreille : pastille concave et pendant conique débordant sur la pastille d'une part, à pointe étalée d'autre part. Fragment de tête : visage, avec le cou, sans l’arrière : cassure à hauteur de l'œil gauche et de l'oreille droite nez long, très légèrement déporté vers la droite surface du nez, de la joue gauche, du menton arrachée. Pâte rose. Moulé creux. H. 10,1. Arcade sourcilière marquée

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