Object card·SAL_1385·1965

Proto-White Painted bottle from Tomb 1, Salamis

Proto-White Painted bottle from Tomb 1, Salamis
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1385. "Proto-White Painted bottle from Tomb 1, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Bottle of Proto-White Painted ware from Tomb 1, Salamis, Cyprus, inventory V_0343; complete, restored from fragments. Cylindrical body with carinated shoulder, concave neck, flat base, and very widely flaring round mouth; H. 26 cm, max. diameter 8.3 cm, neck height 5.6 cm. Wheel-made in fine salmon-pink fabric with beige burnished slip, with two superposed vertical handles, one flat from neck to shoulder and the other triple from rim to the first handle. Decorated with brown-to-reddish-brown paint: horizontal bands enclosing a zone of vertical bands forming chequered lozenges and ladder motifs, with a zigzag line on the shoulder. Drawing D_1869, slide C_0078, plate PL_24, page 9 of the notebook; 1965-04.

French, as on the record

num planche : PL_24 chantier : Tombe 1 objet : Céramique : Vases fermés panse cylindrique épaule carénée col concave engobe beige poli dim. : h. : 26 bouche ronde très évasée type :Bouteille diam. max. : 8,3 h. col : 5,6. — Au tour pâte rose saumon assez fine deux anses verticales superposées, l’une plate du col à l’épaule, l’autre triple du bord à la première anse. — Décor de bandes horizontales déterminant une zone décorée de bandes verticales : losanges quadrillés, échelle Bouteille — Complète, recollée dessin : D_1869 diapositives : C_0078 inv objet : V_0343 pub : SAL_PUB_II_P_CAT_02_0075_p_0038 peinture brune virant au brun rouge assez clair. — Fond plat sur l’épaule ligne en zigzag. — Proto-White Painted.

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