Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp with black glaze, Rampart
Object card: 1966. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1095. "Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp with black glaze, Rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.
Object card
English, translated from the French record
Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp without handle, biconvex profile, with a black glaze that is flaking and a pierced knob for suspension; the lamp is incomplete, with only the body and the thumb knob remaining, height 2.2 cm and knob diameter 6.4 cm. Buff clay; the body around the filling hole has an incised circle forming a ring. Found in the Rampart sector, square K V/γδ10; Γ23, inventory L_0275, slide C_1119; 28 September 1966. Salamis, Cyprus.
French, as on the record
chantier : Rempart
objet : lampe
epoque : hellénistique
type :lampe tournée fermée
forme : sans anse, profil biconvexe
caracterique : à vernis noir avec tenon
carre : K V/γδ10
carre : Γ23
ht. restante = 2,2.
diapositives : C_1119
inv objet : L_0275
pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0064_p_0041
tenon percé d’un trou pour la suspension. ø = 6,4
vernis noir, écaillé. Lampe tournée : autour du trou d’alimentation, cercle incisé délimitant un anneau
Incomplète : il reste la partie du corps qui porte le tenon pour le pouce. Argile chamois
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