Object card·SAL_5059·1969

Standing goddess fragment holding drapery, Salamis, Classical

Standing goddess fragment holding drapery, Salamis, Classical
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_5059. "Standing goddess fragment holding drapery, Salamis, Classical". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a hollow-moulded figure of the Great Goddess in her various aspects, a goddess carrying an animal, flower, fruit or object, in buff fabric, back preserved, H. 14 cm, l. 6 cm, of careful workmanship; Classical period. It preserves the lower right edge with the forearm and hand, the arm hanging along the body, and a twisted bracelet at the wrist, with the fine fingers seeming to hold vertical folds of drapery. Area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4, Salamis, Cyprus; inventory Tc_1936; 4 September 1969.

French, as on the record

forme : Porteuses d'offrandes indéterminées caracterique : Femme debout retenant un pli de drapé ou un pan de tissu arrière conservé. Pâte chamois. Moulé creux facture soignée. H. 14 l. 6. Le bras pendait le long du corps Fragment de bord inférieur droit, avec l'avant-bras et la main arrière plus ou moins plat, joint formant une sorte de large bande oblique diapositives : C_5105 inv objet : Tc_1936 inv tessons : Tc_1936 negatif : 01174_06 negatif : 01174_05 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0364_p_0105 la main, fine, aux doigts bien différenciés, semble retenir des plis verticaux de drapé. Bracelet torsadé au poignet. chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique objet : La grande déesse sous ses divers aspects type :Déesse portant un animal, une fleur, un fruit, un objet carre : K VI/δ4

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