Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4728. "Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.
Object card
English, translated from the French record
Incomplete hollow-moulded terracotta head of the Great Goddess in a calathos, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ4, page 44 of the notebook. Height 10.4 cm; ears set in place with thumb-pressed hollows; round face in right profile with barely distinct eyes and nose; convex back, fairly well smoothed; open calathos, prominent lower lip and chin; hair in a continuous frontal roll without drawn locks; only the base of the calathos remains as a band; the top and neck (broken) are missing. Red-brown fabric with white-green slip; very damaged and very worn, surface appearing eroded. Inventory Tc_1723; 25 August 1969.
French, as on the record
chantier : Zone au sud du rempart
epoque : Classique
forme : La grande déesse à Calathos
objet : Tête conservées
type :Têtes avec coiffe
carre : K VI/γ4
caracterique : Calathoi : Fragments
en place des oreilles, creux faits au pouce. H. 10,4. Visage rond au profil droit : yeux et nez à peine distincts
arrière convexe, assez bien lissé
coiffe ouverte
lèvre inférieure et menton proéminents
Tête incomplète : manque le haut (coiffe), cou brisé
diapositives : C_4735
inv objet : Tc_1723
inv tessons : Tc_1723
pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0138_p_0061
cou épais. Cheveux en bourrelet frontal continu, sans mèches dessinées. De la coiffe ne reste que la base, en bandeau.
très abîmée et très usée, surface comme rongée. Pâte brun rouge et engobe blanc vert. Moulée creuse
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