Object card·SAL_4957·1969

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_4957. "Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Object card for a head of the Great Goddess with a calathos, in Classical style, from the area south of the rampart in Salamis; inventory Tc_1864, negative 01144_06, plate PL_02, square K VI/γ4 (east). The incomplete head preserves the left part of the face, the calathos and the shoulder; salmon-coloured fabric, hollow mould. It has a twisted parotid lock, a calathos forming a band at its base with a row of cabochon rosettes and a row of larger flat pastilles, and an undecorated top. Earring: convex pastille and conical pendant. A round-bead necklace in the rounded neckline of the tunic supports a crescent moon at its centre. The back is well joined to the front; the mouth is marked by a simple slit; the nose is round and in low relief; the eye appears half-closed; the chin is receding; the hair is apparently wavy, in a continuous frontal roll; H. approx. 8 cm. 2 September 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 num planche : PL_02 carre : K VI/γ4 (est) mèche parotide torsadée. Calathos formant bandeau à sa base, sur lequel le décor est posé directement : une rangée de rosettes-cabochons et une rangée de pastilles plates plus grandes sommet sans décor. Boucle d'oreille : pastille convexe et pendant conique. Du buste ne subsiste que l'épaule. Dans un décolleté arrondi de tunique s'inscrit un collier de perles rondes soutenant au centre un croissant de lune. arrière bien raccordé à l'avant bouche marquée par une simple fente nez rond en faible relief diapositives : C_4990 inv objet : Tc_1864 inv tessons : Tc_1864 negatif : 01144_06 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0053_p_0046 bouche incisée. H. env. 8. Visage : œil semblant mi-clos Tête incomplète : partie gauche du visage, du calathos et du buste (épaule). Pâte saumon. Moulée creuse menton fuyant. Cheveux apparemment ondulés, en bourrelet frontal continu

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