Object card·SAL_5987·1970

Limestone falcon votive sculpture, Huilerie

Limestone falcon votive sculpture, Huilerie
Object card: 1970. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_5987. "Limestone falcon votive sculpture, Huilerie". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Limestone falcon, head and tail missing, inventory Sc_0164, negative 04859_02, from square I III/η3 in the Huilerie sector at Salamis, Archaic period. It belongs to the series of votive figures of lions, sphinxes and falcons found at Samos, Lindos and Kamiros, and at Salamis itself, where it is perhaps the place of their manufacture; they are associated with the "Neo-Cypriot" style and may be dated to the second half of the 6th century BC. Preserved height 6.9 cm. 30 September 1970.

French, as on the record

Faucon en calcaire (manquent la tête et la queue). Il appartient à la série des ex-voto représentant des lions, des sphinx, des faucons, comme on en a trouvé à Samos, Lindos, Camiros (où on les considère comme des importations chypriotes), et à Salamine même, qui est peut-être le lieu de leur fabrication. Ils se rattachent au style «néo-chypriote», et peuvent être datés de la deuxième moitié du VIe s. a.C. H. cons. 6,9. chantier : Huilerie epoque : Archaïque objet : Sculpture carre : I III/η3 inv objet : Sc_0164 negatif : 04859_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_CAT_11_Nc7594_p_0046

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