Object card·SAL_1492·1965

Flask with concentric circles and lozenges, Tomb 1

Flask with concentric circles and lozenges, Tomb 1
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1492. "Flask with concentric circles and lozenges, Tomb 1". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Flask, incomplete and repaired, inventory V_0445, from Tomb 1 at Salamis, Cyprus. Handle from neck to shoulder; body diameter 16.5 cm; surviving height 20.5 cm; wheel-made, with beige-polished slip and pinkish-beige fabric with some grit. The top is missing. Same organisation as Sal. 1491; the band of chequered lozenges also includes a chequerboard lozenge, and the smallest of the concentric circles bears a red Jerusalem cross. Bichrome I, painted in light brown and purple-red; rounded body with two protuberances at the ends of the horizontal axis perpendicular to the plane of the handle. Inventory V_0445; April 1965.

French, as on the record

num planche : PL_26 chantier : Tombe 1 objet : Céramique : Vases fermés Gourde — Incomplète, recollée type :Gourde anse du col à l’épaule diam. panse : 16,5. — Au tour dim. : h. cons. : 20,5 engobe beige poli pâte beige rosé avec quelques graviers manque le haut. — Même organisation que Sal. 1491 dessin : D_1945 diapositives : C_1440 inv objet : V_0445 negatif : 00106_01 pub : SAL_PUB_II_P_CAT_02_0087_p_0043 la bande de losanges quadrillés comporte aussi un losange à damiers le plus petit des cercles concentriques porte une croix de Jérusalem rouge. — Bichrome I. peintures brun clair et rouge pourpre. — Panse ronde avec deux protubérances aux extrémités de l’axe horizontal perpendiculaire au plan de l’anse

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