Les figurines de Tarse. Partie I. Contexte historique et spécificités techniques

Abstract

On the site of Mount Gözlükule in Tarsus (Cilicia) were discovered since the middle of the 19th century more than 2000 figurines in contexts of houses, tombs and workshops. The study of the figurines preserved in the Louvre and in Tarsus excavation’s house allowed to observe technical specificities on the figurines manufactured in these workshops (use of plaster moulds, addition of plaster elements on clay figurines, flat reverse, rich overflowing polychromy…). These specificities observed with the eyes only, needed to be enriched by archaeometric, technical and polychromy analyzes carried out by the Centre de recherches et de restauration des musées de France on twenty figurines of the Louvre.

Keywords

• Tarsus
• Figurine
• Workshop
• Technical Process
• Mould
• Louvre