Object card·SAL_4728·1969

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_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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