Object card·SAL_0919·1965

Red-slipped closed wheel-made lamp, Temple of Zeus

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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