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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