Object card·SAL_4725·1969

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4725. "Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Head of a terracotta figurine of the Great Goddess with a calathos, preserved without the neck, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4, Salamis, Classical period. The calathos is closed, the back flat and smoothed, and the head is broken at the top of the calathos; the clay is buff, the figurine solid-moulded and coarsely made, with worn features apart from the long, strong nose, and a continuous frontal fringe of hair. H. 6.2 cm. Made from the same mould as Sal_4605. Inventory Tc_1720; 25 August 1969.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart Tête complète, sans le cou caracterique : Calathoi sans décor ou unis epoque : Classique forme : La grande déesse à Calathos objet : Tête conservées type :Têtes avec coiffe carre : K VI/δ4 calathos fermé arrière plat, lissé calathos brisé au sommet usure. Pâte chamois. Moulée pleine diapositives : C_4732 inv objet : Tc_1720 inv tessons : Tc_1720 negatif : 01045_06 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0021_p_0041 facture grossière. H. 6,2. Traits du visage tout effacés, sauf le nez long et fort. Cheveux en bourrelet frontal continu. Calathos à base concave et à pans latéraux. Du même moule que Sal_4605.

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