Object card·SAL_1056·1966

Black-glazed Attic-type terracotta lamp with horizontal handle

Black-glazed Attic-type terracotta lamp with horizontal handle
Object card: 1966. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1056. "Black-glazed Attic-type terracotta lamp with horizontal handle". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Object L_0264 is an incomplete lamp of fine salmon-coloured clay, very resistant, covered inside and outside with black (Attic) glaze; only the rear part survives, with the handle broken and its attachments visible. Wheel-made closed lamp with a horizontal handle (attachments placed about a third of the way round the circumference), Classical period, found in the square Γ23; K VI/δ4, south of the rampart at Salamis; the only decoration is a regularly and deeply incised circle forming a ring the colour of the clay on the black glaze, sloping towards the centre; L. of rim 2, ø 6, preserved height 2.5, fill hole ø 2 (cm). Inventory L_0264; 28 September 1966.

French, as on the record

num planche : PL_02 num planche : PL_14 objet : lampe forme : anse horizontale type :lampe tournée fermée epoque : classique carre : Γ23 negatif : 03379_01 negatif : 03380_01 Incomplète : il ne reste que la partie postérieure. Anse brisée attaches visibles. Argile fine, saumon, très résistante, recouverte d’un vernis noir (attique) extérieurement et intérieurement. Lampe tournée, à anse horizontale (attaches placées environ au tiers de la circonférence) le seul décor est un cercle régulièrement et profondément gravé, qui forme un anneau couleur de l'argile sur le vernis noir L du rebord = 2 cet anneau est incliné vers le centre. ø = 6 ht. conservée = 2,5 la partie supérieure était assez fermée ø trou d’alimentation = 2. carre : K VI/δ4 dessin : D_2516 dessin : D_0680 diapositives : C_1082 inv objet : L_0264 negatif : 01806_03 pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0033_p_0033-0034 chantier : Zone au sud du rempart

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