Object card·SAL_1532·1967

Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, black-glazed, Salamis

Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, black-glazed, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1532. "Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, black-glazed, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Wheel-made closed lamp with a flat-based, biconvex profile and no handle, with a black glaze with a knob, now flaking; red clay, hard. Diameter 6.1 cm, base diameter 3.9 cm, height 4 cm, length 6 cm; a marked stepped foot, fire marks on the body, and a fill hole bordered by a raised rim ringed by an incised circle; incomplete, the front part broken. Hellenistic period. area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ3, Salamis; inventory L_0300; negative 02019_04; slide C_1461; 20 March 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart carre : K VI/δ3 objet : lampe ø = 6,1 epoque : hellénistique type :lampe tournée fermée forme : sans anse, profil biconvexe caracterique : à vernis noir avec tenon ø base = 3,9 ht. = 4. pied en ressaut marqué. L = 6 traces de feu sur le corps. Lampe tournée : trou d’alimentation limité par un bourrelet que borde un cercle en creux diapositives : C_1461 inv objet : L_0300 negatif : 02019_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0065_p_0041 Incomplète : partie antérieure brisée. Argile rouge dure, revêtue d’un vernis noir qui s’est écaillé

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