Les terres cuites figurées de Kirrha (Phocide) du VIe au IVe siècles avant J.C. : caractérisation des productions et définition du faciès de l’atelier coroplathique kirrhéen 

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The french excavations conducted by M. Jannoray, H van Effenterre and J. Roger between 1936 and 1938 in Kirrha, in place called “La Magoula” have brought to light a large votive deposit containing many terracotta figurines and miniaturistic vases dated for the great majority of the end of the vith century at the beginning of the ivth. Apart from the production directly imported from Corinth, the presence of types, in particular of feminine protomes and busts, with original stylistic characteristics, involves the existence at Kirrha of coroplastic workshops that do not only import foreign types, some of them could be locally produced in series by moulding, but were creators too. As no remains of workshops have yet been discovered, our knowledge of them is now only based on the excavated productions. Here, in this workshop, we will see all that the analysis of terracotta figurines, since the beginning of their study in 2013, can already bring to the characterisation of the terracotta workshops of Kirrha and to the understanding of how they work at the time of their peak, in the vth century.