Object card·SAL_5235·1969

Terracotta bust of Great Goddess holding a bird, Salamis

Terracotta bust of Great Goddess holding a bird, Salamis
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_5235. "Terracotta bust of Great Goddess holding a bird, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Fragment of a bust of the Great Goddess with breasts and without arms, with an applied bird (perhaps) judging by the slip around its join with the bust, H. 5.9 cm. The bird is shown head-on, its head very roughly modelled, with its head, neck and start of body surviving; l. 6.8 cm. Pink fabric with cream slip, moulded hollow, back not preserved; it wears a collar of long conical pendants, whose beads cannot be made out. Classical period; inventory Tc_2031; from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4; slide C_5271; negative 05826_04; 01230_02; 11 September 1969.

French, as on the record

objet : La grande déesse sous ses divers aspects type :Déesse portant un animal, une fleur, un fruit, un objet carre : K VI/δ4 Fragment de buste, avec les seins et sans les bras oiseau rapporté (?), si l'on en croit l'étalage de pâte autour de lui à sa jonction avec le buste. H. 5,9 il ne ressemble aux autres exemplaires ni par sa position ni par sa forme. Il était tenu entre les seins, sans doute du bras droit. Collier à pendants coniques allongés, dont on ne distingue pas les perles. de l'oiseau subsistent la tête, le cou et le départ du corps caracterique : Déesse portant un oiseau diapositives : C_5271 forme : Animaux inv objet : Tc_2031 inv tessons : Tc_2031 negatif : 05826_04 negatif : 01230_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139892_XIV_CAT_14_0262_p_0092 l. 6,8. Un oiseau se présente de face, la tête très grossièrement modelée arrière non conservé. Pâte rose et engobe crème. Moulé creux chantier : Zone au sud du rempart epoque : Classique

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