Object card·SAL_2434·1967

Wheel-made closed lamp with horizontal handle, Hellenistic

Wheel-made closed lamp with horizontal handle, Hellenistic
Object card: 1967. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_2434. "Wheel-made closed lamp with horizontal handle, Hellenistic". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Wheel-made closed lamp with horizontal handle and two spouts, from the area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ3, Salamis, Cyprus. Chamois clay with black glaze showing bluish reflections; incomplete, the handle is broken (its attachments are visible) and one of the two spouts, at the ends of the spouts, is repaired by gluing. Overall length 11.4 cm; diameter 7.5 cm; height 4.8 cm; base diameter 4.75 cm; base cylindrical with slight relief (0.6); conical boss at the bottom of the reservoir; axes of the spouts form an angle of 70°; filling hole diameter 2.6 cm, central, edged by a concave ring bounded by an unglazed circle. Period: Hellenistic. Inventory L_0400; 10 April 1967.

French, as on the record

pub : SAL_PUB_139893_I_CAT_01_0039_p_0035 type :lampe tournée fermée protubérance conique au fond du réservoir. L = 11,4 chantier : Zone au sud du rempart carre : K VI/γ3 num planche : PL_02 caracterique : n.d. num planche : PL_15 objet : lampe ø = 7,5 base cylindrique en léger relief (0,6) ht. = 4,8 les axes de ces becs forment un angle de 70° ø base = 4,75 ø trou d’alimentation = 2,6. extrémités des deux becs, l'un d’eux est recollé. Argile chamois, vernis noir à reflets bleutés. Lampe tournée à anse horizontale et deux becs Incomplète : anse brisée (les attaches sont visibles) dessin : D_2520 dessin : D_0699 diapositives : C_2316 epoque : hellénistique forme : anse horizontale inv objet : L_0400 trou d’alimentation central bordé d’un anneau concave que limite un cercle non verni negatif : 02046_01

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