Object card·SAL_1386·1965

Bichrome White Painted bottle, Tomb 1, Salamis

Bichrome White Painted bottle, Tomb 1, Salamis
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1386. "Bichrome White Painted bottle, Tomb 1, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Incomplete bottle of Proto-White Painted (Bichrome) ware from Tomb 1, Salamis, Cyprus; the top is missing. Brown-black to red-brown paint and red-purple paint; flat base, diameter 10.5 cm; carinated shoulder, diameter 8 cm; two vertical handles on the shoulder; conical body; wheel-made; chamois slip polished; fine, slightly friable chamois fabric with mica; height preserved 27 cm. Decoration of bands forming two horizontal zones separated by a band of cross-hatched lozenges; the zones are filled with vertical motifs of cross-hatched lozenges and fishbone arcs with red infill, and the shoulder is decorated with a star with red infill and cross-hatched triangles. Inventory V_0344; negative 02891_01; slides C_0165 and C_0116; drawing D_1870; plate PL_24; 1965-04.

French, as on the record

Bouteille — Incomplète dessin : D_1870 diapositives : C_0165 diapositives : C_0116 inv objet : V_0344 negatif : 02891_01 pub : SAL_PUB_II_P_CAT_02_0077_p_0039 type :Bouteille peinture brun noir à brun rouge, et peinture rouge pourpre. — Fond plat ces zones sont remplies de motifs verticaux de losanges quadrillés et d’arêtes de poissons à remplissage rouge num planche : PL_24 chantier : Tombe 1 objet : Céramique : Vases fermés épaule carénée engobe chamois poli le haut manque. — Décor de bandes déterminant deux zones horizontales séparées par une bande de losanges quadrillés deux anses dressées sur l’épaule diam. fond : 10,5 diam. épaule : 8. — Au tour dim. : h. cons. : 27 panse conique pâte chamois fine un peu friable, micassée l’épaule est décorée en étoile avec un remplissage rouge et des triangles quadrillés. — Prolo-White Painted (Bichrome)

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