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Object card·SAL_6900·1972

Limestone kouros head, chance find at Salamis

Limestone kouros head, chance find at Salamis
Object card: 1972. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_6900. "Limestone kouros head, chance find at Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Kouros head with almond-shaped eyes, drawn eyebrows, thin mouth and straight face, its hair in a bowl-shaped style combed in melon-slice sections. Soft limestone; H. 10 cm, W. 6.2 cm; chance find at Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory Sc_0183; 15 June 1972.

French, as on the record

objet : Figurine chantier : Découverte fortuite Tête de couros, yeux allongés en amande, sourcils dessinés, bouche mince, droite, coiffure au bol, peignée en tranches de melon. Calcaire tendre. H. 10, l. 6,2 inv objet : Sc_0183 negatif : 06223_01 negatif : 06310_04 negatif : 06310_05 negatif : 06311_01 negatif : 06311_02 negatif : 06311_03 negatif : 06311_04 negatif : 06311_05 negatif : 06311_06 negatif : 06312_01 negatif : 06312_02 negatif : 06222_06 type :Tête de couros

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