Object card·SAL_0780·1966

Lenticular clay loom weight, Campanopetra

Lenticular clay loom weight, Campanopetra
Object card: 1966. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_0780. "Lenticular clay loom weight, Campanopetra". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Lenticular loom weight of orange clay, object Po_0055, with two circular holes near the top; slightly biconvex, weight 65 g, diameter 6.5 cm. The edge is chipped and the top is cut to form a flat apex, roughly grooved with a channel that runs onto one of the two convex faces, between the holes. Found with a handle of a Rhodian-stamped amphora from the late 4th to early 3rd century BC, see Salamis III, no. 13, p. 17; square K IV/γ10, Campanopetra, Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory SAL_0780; 6 April 1966.

French, as on the record

chantier : Campanopétra num planche : PL_25 carre : K IV/γ10 modelé forme : Type lenticulaire. type :PESONS légèrement biconvexe poids : 65 g. — Lenticulaire negatif : 00865_02 negatif : 00865_03 deux trous circulaires près du sommet. — Trouvé avec une anse d’amphore à timbre rhodien de la fin du IVe-début du IIIe s. av. J.-C. : Salamine III, n° 13, p. 17 (Sal.779) complet : pourtour ébréché. ø : 6,5 diapositives : C_0808 inv objet : Po_0055 negatif : 04488_03 negatif : 04488_04 negatif : 04510_05 negatif : 04471_01 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0239_p_0083 le pourtour est coupé pour former un sommet plat, grossièrement creusé d'un sillon, qui se prolonge sur une des deux faces bombées, entre les trous — Terre cuite, argile orangée

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