Object card·SAL_0769·1966

Hellenistic black-glazed lamp, Sondage Z, SAL_0769

Hellenistic black-glazed lamp, Sondage Z, SAL_0769
Object card: 1966. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_0769. "Hellenistic black-glazed lamp, Sondage Z, SAL_0769". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Wheel-made closed lamp of Hellenistic date, without handle, with a biconvex profile and a black glaze with a knob, found in square K V/α9 of Sondage Z at Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory L_0207; H. 4.3 cm, ø 8 cm, base ø 6 cm, base height 0.5 cm, preserved L. 8.5 cm; incomplete, with only the front part and the spout remaining; salmon-coloured clay, very hard and well fired, with a matt black glaze inside and outside and a brownish tint at the base. Negatives 03394_01, 01764_05 and 01868_03; slide C_0244; 31 March 1966.

French, as on the record

num planche : PL_02 objet : lampe epoque : hellénistique type :lampe tournée fermée forme : sans anse, profil biconvexe caracterique : à vernis noir avec tenon ht. = 4,3. carre : K V/α9 negatif : 03394_01 à la base il a pris une teinte brune. Lampe tournée corps légèrement arrondi ø =8 ø base = 6 Incomplète : il reste la partie antérieure et le bec. Argile saumon très résistante et bien cuite vernis noir mat à l'extérieur et à l'intérieur base nettement marquée (0,5) au diamètre presque égal à celui du corps de la lampe. L conservée = 8,5 diapositives : C_0244 inv objet : L_0207 negatif : 01764_05 negatif : 01868_03 pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0068_p_0041-0042 deux cercles en creux et concentriques limitent un bourrelet arrondi qui s’incurve vers le trou d’alimentation bec aplati en sa partie supérieure et très effilé chantier : Sondage Z

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