Object card·SAL_4890·1969

Goddess with deer, terracotta figurine fragment, Salamis

Goddess with deer, terracotta figurine fragment, Salamis
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4890. "Goddess with deer, terracotta figurine fragment, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Object card for figurine SAL_4890: the Great Goddess in her various aspects, Classical period, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4. Type: goddess accompanied by a deer; a deer stands beside the goddess, on her right or left. Horns and ears broken off, legs missing; back not at all smoothed, H. 10.6 cm; back preserved. Grey fabric with cream slip, hollow-moulded, l. 7.7 cm. The deer has a swollen chest, long neck and elongated muzzle, head and neck in left profile, against a draped part where faint folds can be made out. Fragment of the lower right edge of the statuette, almost entirely occupied by a standing animal, of which the forequarters, neck and head survive. Inventory Tc_1824; 30 August 1969.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : La grande déesse sous ses divers aspects carre : K VI/δ4 caracterique : Biche debout à côté de la déesse, à droite ou à gauche forme : Déesse accompagnée d'une biche type :Déesse à la biche cornes et oreilles emportées, manquent les pattes arrière pas du tout égalisé. H. 10,6 arrière conservé. Pâte grise et engobe crème. Moulé creux l. 7,7. Biche au poitrail renflé, au cou long, au museau allongé, tête et cou de profil gauche, contre une partie drapée où l'on devine des plis évanescents. Fragment de bord inférieur droit de statuette, occupé presque entièrement par un animal debout, dont subsistent l'avant-train, le cou et la tête diapositives : C_4900 inv objet : Tc_1824 inv tessons : Tc_1824 negatif : 01123_05 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0217_p_0084

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