Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, South of Rampart
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1637. "Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, South of Rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.
Object card
English, translated from the French record
Wheel-made closed lamp of red clay with black glaze, worn in places, without handle and with a piriform profile; the nozzle is flattened at the upper part and broken obliquely at the end, and the base is set off by a ridge. Diameter 6.5 cm, length 7.9 cm, base diameter 4.4 cm, height 4 cm; a pierced thumb-grip. Sector: area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ2, Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory L_0326; slide C_1562; negative 02030_05; 23 March 1967.
French, as on the record
chantier : Zone au sud du rempart
carre : K VI/δ2
objet : lampe
ø = 6,5
epoque : hellénistique
type :lampe tournée fermée
forme : sans anse, profil piriforme
caracterique : à vernis noir sans tenon
bec aplati à la partie supérieure
base en ressaut. L = 7,9
ø base = 4,4
ht. = 4.
tenon pour le pouce percé
Incomplète : bec brisé en oblique à l'extrémité. Argile rouge recouverte d’un vernis noir disparu par places. Lampe tournée : trou d’alimentation bordé d’un quart de rond usé que limite un cercle incisé
diapositives : C_1562
inv objet : L_0326
negatif : 02030_05
pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0089_p_0046
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