Hellenistic closed wheel-made lamp, south of rampart
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1533. "Hellenistic closed wheel-made lamp, south of rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.
Object card
English, translated from the French record
Wheel-made closed lamp with piriform profile, no handle and no tenon, unvarnished, of Hellenistic date, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ3. Diameter 6.4 cm, base diameter 3.4 cm, height 4.5 cm, length 8.9 cm; base with a very marked step (0.6), incomplete with the nozzle broken at its end; salmon-coloured resistant clay; the filling hole is bordered by a ring limited by an incised circle. Inventory L_0301; 20 March 1967. Salamis, Cyprus.
French, as on the record
chantier : Zone au sud du rempart
carre : K VI/δ3
objet : lampe
ø = 6,4
epoque : hellénistique
type :lampe tournée fermée
forme : sans anse, profil piriforme
ø base = 3,4
caracterique : sans vernis et sans tenon
ht. = 4,5.
base en ressaut (0,6) très marqué. L = 8,9
diapositives : C_1462
inv objet : L_0301
negatif : 02019_03
pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0073_p_0043
Incomplète : bec brisé en son extrémité. Argile saumon résistante. Lampe tournée, haute
trou d’alimentation bordé d’un anneau que limite un cercle incisé
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