Red-slipped closed wheel-made lamp, Temple of Zeus
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_0919. "Red-slipped closed wheel-made lamp, Temple of Zeus". CC BY 4.0. Resized.
Object card
English, translated from the French record
Complete lamp of pinkish-salmon clay with a red slip, partly flaked away, from the Temple of Zeus at Salamis, Cyprus; Hellenistic, type closed wheel-made lamp with a tenon, without handle and with a biconical profile. H. 2.1 cm, diameter 4.2 cm, base diameter 2.5 cm; fire traces on the spout, a low relief base much smaller than the lamp's diameter, a filling hole edged by a concave ring bounded by an incised circle, and an incised graffito Π under the base, L = 5.8 cm. Inventory L_0229; negatives 03394_01, 00385, 01888_03; slides C_0549, C_0536; 1 April 1965.
French, as on the record
chantier : Temple de Zeus
num planche : PL_02
objet : lampe
ht. = 2,1.
Complète. Argile rose saumon
epoque : hellénistique
type :lampe tournée fermée
caracterique : à vernis rouge avec tenon
forme : sans anse, profil biconique
negatif : 03394_01
ø = 4,2
traces de feu au bec. Lampe tournée au profil biconique
graffite incisé sous la base : Π. L = 5,8
vernis brique écaillé et en partie disparu
ø base = 2,5
base en faible relief, de diamètre très inférieur à celui de la lampe
diapositives : C_0549
diapositives : C_0536
inv objet : L_0229
negatif : 00385
negatif : 01888_03
pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0095_p_0047
trou d’alimentation bordé d’un anneau concave que limite un cercle incisé
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