Object card·SAL_1636·1967

Hellenistic wheel-made lamp with black glaze, Salamis

Hellenistic wheel-made lamp with black glaze, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1636. "Hellenistic wheel-made lamp with black glaze, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Hellenistic closed wheel-made lamp with a biconvex profile, no handle and a thumb-rest, with traces of black glaze, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ2, Salamis, Cyprus. Yellowish-green clay; incomplete, the nozzle broken. Dimensions: ø 6.1 cm, H. 3.8 cm, ø base 4.1 cm, L. 5.8 cm. Inventory L_0325; negative 02030_05; slide C_1561. 23 March 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart carre : K VI/δ2 objet : lampe ø = 6,1 epoque : hellénistique type :lampe tournée fermée forme : sans anse, profil biconvexe ht. = 3,8. caracterique : à vernis noir avec tenon corps arrondi ø base = 4,1 tenon pour le pouce negatif : 02030_05 base bien marquée. L = 5,8 médaillon limité par un cercle en creux trou d’alimentation entouré par un quart de rond Incomplète : bec brisé. Argile jaune verdâtre vernis noir dont il ne reste que des traces. Lampe tournée diapositives : C_1561 inv objet : L_0325 pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0063_p_0041

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