Object card·SAL_5116·1969

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Classical

Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Classical
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_5116. "Terracotta head of the Great Goddess with calathos, Classical". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

Other image (1)

English, translated from the French record

Incomplete head with half of the calathos missing; brownish fabric, hollow-moulded. Classical period. Brow ridges strongly marked, back convex and smoothed; open calathos, H. 8 (cm). Face turned to the right, right eye drooping, mouth likewise; lips parted, the upper lip emphasised by an incised line. Hair perhaps wavy, forming an indistinct frontal bulge. Calathos decorated in relief, similar to that of Sal_4452 and painted green, with traces of green paint on the top of the calathos; undoubtedly from the same mould as Sal_4452. area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4. Inventory Tc_1974; 5 September 1969. Negative 01193_05; slide C_5157.

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 Tête incomplète : manque la moitié du calathos. Pâte brunâtre arcades sourcilières fortement marquées arrière convexe, lissé calathos ouvert. H. 8. Visage déjeté vers la droite, œil droit tombant, bouche également diapositives : C_5157 inv objet : Tc_1974 inv tessons : Tc_1974 bouche entr'ouverte, la lèvre supérieure étant comme soulignée par une ligne incisée. Cheveux peut-être ondulés, formant un bourrelet frontal indéfinissable. Calathos au décor semblable à celui de Sal_4452, et peint en vert. Sans doute du même moule que Sal_4452. negatif : 01193_05 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0119_p_0058 traces de peinture verte sur le haut du calathos. Moulée creuse

Corrections and additions

Can you tell us more about this?

If you can identify, date or place this item, or know where else it is recorded, we would like to hear.

We would like to hear about

  • What it shows or records
  • Its date, place or author
  • Where else it is published or held
  • A mistake in our description

Tell us if you would like to be thanked by name on the page.

More from Salamis

16,340 items in the archiveThe site →