Object card·SAL_0529·1966

Roman moulded lamp with red slip, Campanopetra

Roman moulded lamp with red slip, Campanopetra
Object card: 1966. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_0529. "Roman moulded lamp with red slip, Campanopetra". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Moulded lamp of Roman date, type 10, with red slip, from Campanopetra, Salamis, Cyprus; from square K V/εζ9; B 21 (γ). Flat base without a projecting rim, moulded with no handle; the feeding hole sits in the centre of a slightly concave medallion, and the nozzle is elongated, set apart from the crown and decorated with two counter-posed half-volutes in slight relief; the beak is broken, so the lamp is incomplete. Fine salmon-pink clay; the red slip has run over the back of the lamp and turned blackish brown in places. L. 8.2 cm, H. 2.1 cm, base diameter 3.5 cm, diameter 6.7 cm. Inventory L_0119; slide C_0600; negative 03389_01; 23 March 1966.

French, as on the record

fond plat, sans rebord saillant. L = 8,2 diapositives : C_0600 inv objet : L_0119 pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0110_p_0053 le vernis a passé sur la partie arrière de la lampe et viré au brun noir par endroits. Lampe moulée, type 10 : pas d’anse le trou d’alimentation est situé au centre d’un médaillon légèrement concave l'extrémité du bec était sans doute limitée par trois cercles concentriques bec allongé, détaché de la couronne, décoré de deux demi-volutes contrariées en léger relief Incomplète : bec brisé. Argile rose saumon, très fine chantier : Campanopétra epoque : romaine num planche : PL_03 objet : lampe type :lampe moulée ht. = 2,1. caracterique : à vernis rouge forme : Type 10 ø base = 3,5 vernis rouge à glaçure ø = 6,7 carre : K V/εζ9 carre : B 21 (γ) negatif : 03389_01

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