Object card·SAL_2311·1967

Wheel-made closed lamp with knob handle, Hellenistic, Salamis

Wheel-made closed lamp with knob handle, Hellenistic, Salamis
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2311. "Wheel-made closed lamp with knob handle, Hellenistic, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Wheel-made closed lamp of Hellenistic date from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/δ4, without slip, with a pierced vertical knob handle (L. 7, ø 4) and a piriform profile without handle. The lamp has a cylindrical base (H. 0.7), a curved body, a medallion surrounded by a wide incised circle, and an olive-coloured exterior; the nozzle is broken and the fabric is chamois-yellow clay. Inventory L_0388; slide C_2198; negative 02151_04; 8 April 1967.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart carre : K VI/δ4 objet : lampe epoque : hellénistique type :lampe tournée fermée caracterique : sans vernis avec tenon base cylindrique (ht. 0,7) corps galbé médaillon entouré d’un large cercle en creux tenon percé d’un trou vertical. L = 7 ø = 4. l'extérieur a pris une couleur olivâtre. Lampe tournée Incomplète : bec brisé. Argile jaune chamois diapositives : C_2198 forme : sans anse, profil piriforme inv objet : L_0388 negatif : 02151_04 pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0079_p_0044 trou d’alimentation bordé d’un quart de rond épais

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