Object card·SAL_1482·1965

Incense burner with bull's head, Tomb 1

Incense burner with bull's head, Tomb 1
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1482. "Incense burner with bull's head, Tomb 1". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Incomplete incense burner (?), Tomb 1, Salamis; inventory V_0435, 1965-04. Hand-made; reddish-beige surface over red earth, very damaged; height 24.5 cm, width 6.3 to 8.2 cm, thickness 1.1 to 1.7 cm. Roughly rectangular plaque pierced at top with a large suspension hole, with a hand-modelled bull's head in relief below the hole, conical horns, small ears, eyes and muzzle outlined in black; the plaque is divided into horizontal bands decorated with cross-hatched triangles; White Painted I; brown-black paint.

French, as on the record

num planche : PL_40 chantier : Tombe 1 objet : Céramique : VARIA Brûle-parfum (?) — Incomplet type :Brûle-parfum (?) à la base élargissement et départ d’une partie perpendiculaire brisée, en forme de gouttière dim. : h. : 24,5 l. : 6,3 à 8,2 ép. : 1,1 à 1,7. — A la main terre rouge en surface, beige rosé, très endommagé dessin : D_1952 diapositives : C_0069 diapositives : C_0342 diapositives : C_0856 diapositives : C_0016 inv objet : V_0435 negatif : 00091_06 negatif : 02887_01 negatif : 03354_01 negatif : 01027_04 pub : SAL_PUB_II_P_CAT_02_0233_p_0080 les yeux et le museau sont soulignés de noir. — White Painted I. peinture brun noir. — Plaque grossièrement rectangulaire, percée en haut d’un grand trou de suspension sous le trou, tête de taureau en relief modelée à la main, à cornes coniques, aux petites oreilles, aux yeux en relief, au museau élargi et aplati à l’extrémité. — La plaque est séparée en bandes horizontales ornées de triangles quadrillés

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