Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1654. "Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.
Object card
English, translated from the French record
Wheel-made closed lamp of Hellenistic date, without handle, with piriform profile, unslipped and without a knob, in salmon-pink clay, inventory L_0330, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ3. Height 4.1 cm, diameter 5.8 cm, length 8.1 cm, base diameter 3.1 cm; the lamp is incomplete, with the rear part broken, and shows traces of fire on the nozzle, which is flattened at its upper part; the filling hole is edged by a quarter-round moulding bounded by an incised circle, and the foot has a fairly strong ridge. Negative 01979_03; slide C_1579. Salamis, Cyprus; 24 March 1967.
French, as on the record
chantier : Zone au sud du rempart
carre : K VI/δ3
objet : lampe
ø = 5,8
epoque : hellénistique
type :lampe tournée fermée
forme : sans anse, profil piriforme
traces de feu au bec. Lampe tournée
caracterique : sans vernis et sans tenon
ht. = 4,1.
negatif : 01979_03
trou d’alimentation bordé d’un quart de rond que délimite un cercle incisé
bec aplati à sa partie supérieure
pied en assez fort ressaut. L = 8,1
ø de la base = 3,1
diapositives : C_1579
inv objet : L_0330
pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0074_p_0043
Incomplète : partie postérieure brisée. Argile rose saumon
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