Object card·SAL_3020·1965

Terracotta incense burner base, Campanopetra, Salamis

Terracotta incense burner base, Campanopetra, Salamis
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3020. "Terracotta incense burner base, Campanopetra, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Incomplete terracotta incense burner (brûle-parfum), perhaps a candlestick foot?, with wheel-marks; only the base survives, in buff clay with a greenish slip. H. 6 cm, ø 13 x 4.6 cm, thickness 1.2 cm; hollow circular base with a convex top decorated with twisted grooves bounded by well-marked ribs. Campanopetra, square K V/δ10, Salamis, Cyprus; inventory V_0293; October 1965.

French, as on the record

chantier : Campanopétra num planche : PL_38 carre : K V/δ10 num planche : PL_68 type :BRÛLE-PARFUM traces de tour forme : Pieds de chandeliers? — Terre cuite, argile chamois, engobe verdâtre incomplet, la base seule subsiste. H. : 6 ø :13 x 4,6 dessin : D_3001 diapositives : C_2876 inv objet : V_0293 negatif : 02350_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0395_p_0129 ép. : 1,2. — Base circulaire creuse à sommet convexe décoré de cannelures torsadées, délimitées par des nervures bien marquées.

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