Object card·SAL_1494·1965

Pottery flask with concentric circle motifs, Tomb 1

Pottery flask with concentric circle motifs, Tomb 1
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1494. "Pottery flask with concentric circle motifs, Tomb 1". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Flask (gourde) with a narrow neck surmounted by a funnel-shaped conical widening, a thinned lip, a round mouth and a bifid handle running from the shoulder to the neck, with a very marked ridge at the base of the conical widening. Round body with brown concentric circles and red concentric bands on the two vertical hemispheres, a smaller motif of concentric circles below the handle, and horizontal brown and red bands on the upper part; red-orange polished surface, red fabric with grey core, well fired, fine and hard. Thrown on the wheel; height 44.5 cm, neck height 12.5 cm, diameter 33 to 33.5 cm; incomplete and rejoined. Phoenician import. Salamis, Tomb 1; inventory V_0447; drawing D_1914; slides C_0344 and C_0251; 1965-04.

French, as on the record

num planche : PL_27 chantier : Tombe 1 objet : Céramique : Vases fermés lèvre amincie bouche ronde un motif plus petit de cercles concentriques sous l’anse anse bifide de l’épaule à une arête très marquée sur le col, en bas de l’élargissement conique. — Cercles concentriques bruns et bandes concentriques rouges sur les deux hémisphères verticaux diam. : 33 à 33,5 dim. : h. : 44,5 h. col : 12,5. — Au tour peintures brune et rouge. — Panse ronde surface rouge-orangé polie bandes horizontales brunes et rouges sur la partie supérieure. — Importation phénicienne. pâte rouge à cœur gris, bien cuite, fine et dure Gourde — Incomplète, recollée dessin : D_1914 diapositives : C_0344 diapositives : C_0251 inv objet : V_0447 pub : SAL_PUB_II_P_CAT_02_0093_p_0045 type :Gourde col étroit surmonté d’un élargissement conique en entonnoir

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