Object card·SAL_4829·1969

Head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis

Head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4829. "Head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Incomplete head of the Great Goddess with calathos, a hollow moulded fragment in buff fabric, H. 10.8 cm, Classical period; the continuous band of hair and the right part of the calathos survive, showing a flat band at the base, with convex pellets and rosettes (type 1 or 2) above, and the calathos rising above them, apparently undecorated. From the area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ4 (east), Salamis; negative 01076_05; inventory Tc_1778; 28 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 caracterique : Calathoi décorés en relief carre : K VI/γ4 (est) décor : pastilles convexes, et, au-dessus, des rosettes (type 1 ou 2), au-dessus desquelles le calathos monte, apparemment sans décor. Tête incomplète : fragment de calathos. Pâte chamois. Moulée creuse. H. 10,8. Il reste le bourrelet continu de cheveux, et la partie droite du calathos qui laisse voir à la base un bandeau plat délimité diapositives : C_4837 inv objet : Tc_1778 inv tessons : Tc_1778 negatif : 01076_05 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0036_p_0043

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