Object card·SAL_5111·1969

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_5111. "Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Head of the Great Goddess in calathos, Classical period, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4. Pale beige fabric with rusty-looking surface in places; hollow mould-made head with convex back, smoothed, and an open calathos. The head is incomplete, with the top of the calathos broken and worn; the face is oval with coarse features, the eyes effaced, and the nose long and strong, turned to the right. The calathos is decorated in relief with an alternation of simplified griffins, with feathered wings indicated, and uncircled rosettes, perhaps type 1 but well drawn. Inventory Tc_1969; 5 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 carre : K VI/δ4 arrière convexe, lissé nez long et fort, déjeté vers la droite yeux effacés Tête incomplète : calathos cassé en haut diapositives : C_5152 inv objet : Tc_1969 inv tessons : Tc_1969 negatif : 01192_04 negatif : 01192_02 num planche : PL_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0096_p_0054 usure. Pâte beige, surface comme rouillée par endroits. Moulée creuse calathos ouvert. H. 9. Visage ovale, aux traits grossiers : arcades sourcilières en bourrelet, tombantes bouche lippue et haute (pas de canal labial). Cheveux en léger bourrelet coupé par une raie médiane, où manque un élément transversal, le nœud du ruban qui passe sur la chevelure (?). Calathos bien abîmé, mais au décor clair : alternance de griffons de facture simpliste (sauf les ailes aux plumes indiquées) et de rosettes non cerclées, type 1 mais bien dessinées. joints grossièrement aplatis, avec bavures d'argile

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