Object card·SAL_1763·1967

Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, Campanopetra

Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, Campanopetra
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1763. "Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, Campanopetra". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Wheel-made closed lamp of Hellenistic period, without slip, with a thumb-rest tenon, from Campanopetra, Salamis, square K V/α10. Inventory L_0344; slide C_1684; negative 01970_02. Diameter 6 cm, height 4 cm, base diameter 3.6 cm, length 7.7 cm. Biconvex profile without handle, with a marked stepped foot; a quarter-round curves slightly towards the filling hole. Incomplete, the tip of the spout broken; poorly fired red clay. Rounded body, bounded at the top by a fairly wide incised circle. Date: 28 March 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Campanopétra objet : lampe ø = 6 epoque : hellénistique type :lampe tournée fermée caracterique : sans vernis avec tenon forme : sans anse, profil biconvexe tenon pour le pouce carre : K V/α10 ht. = 4. ø base = 3,6 pied en ressaut marqué. L = 7,7 un quart de rond s’incline à peine vers le trou d’alimentation diapositives : C_1684 inv objet : L_0344 negatif : 01970_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0051_p_0038 Incomplète : extrémité du bec cassée. Argile rouge mal cuite. Lampe tournée, au corps arrondi, limité à la partie supérieure par un cercle en creux assez large

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