Object card·SAL_1849·1967

Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, area south of the rampart

Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, area south of the rampart
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_1849. "Hellenistic wheel-made closed lamp, area south of the rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Wheel-made closed lamp of Hellenistic date, without varnish, with handle lug, piriform profile and no handle; from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ3, Salamis. Diameter 5.8 cm, height 4.3 cm, length of the lug 8.5 cm. Fill hole edged by a raised rim bounded by an incised circle; base marked with a step. The lug projects for the thumb and continues as a rib back over the body of the lamp. Incomplete: only half, with the lug, survives. Buff clay. Inventory L_0350; negative 01983_05; drawings D_2527 and D_0690; slide C_1762; 30 March 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart num planche : PL_16 carre : K VI/δ3 objet : lampe ø = 5,8 epoque : hellénistique type :lampe tournée fermée caracterique : sans vernis avec tenon forme : sans anse, profil piriforme trou d’alimentation bordé d’un bourrelet que limite un cercle en creux base marquée en ressaut ht. = 4,3. tenon en saillie pour le pouce qui se prolonge par une nervure vers l'arrière, sur le corps de la lampe. L = 8,5 dessin : D_2527 dessin : D_0690 diapositives : C_1762 inv objet : L_0350 negatif : 01983_05 pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0080_p_0044 Incomplète : il ne subsiste que la moitié avec le tenon. Argile chamois. Lampe tournée

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