Object card·SAL_3111·1966

Terracotta box from well, Sondage Z, Salamis

Terracotta box from well, Sondage Z, Salamis
Object card: 1966. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3111. "Terracotta box from well, Sondage Z, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Rectangular terracotta box (coffret) with vertical walls and a flat base, incomplete, upper part broken; overhanging moulding in graded profile runs along three sides at base and top, back face smooth, walls thin with bevelled upper edges inclined inward. Pink clay with partly preserved cream slip; mended length 15 cm, width 9.3 cm, height 5.7 cm. Found with Hellenistic pottery sherds in a well, square Well M, blocked in the 1st century BC. Negative 00187; inventory Po_0200; October 1966.

French, as on the record

chantier : Sondage Z num planche : PL_71 num planche : PL_49 incomplet, partie supérieure brisée negatif : 00187 carre : Puits M l. : 9,3 recollé. L. : 15 dessin : D_0029 diapositives : C_2963 forme : Coffret en terre cuite inv objet : Po_0200 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0514_p_0179 type :Coffret h. : 5,7. — Coffret rectangulaire à parois verticales et base plane. A la base et à la partie supérieure, une mouluration débordante en dégradé décore trois des côtés. La face arrière est lisse. Les parois sont minces, leur bord supérieur est en biseau incliné vers l’intérieur. — Trouvé avec des tessons de céramique hellénistique dans un puits bouché au Ier s. av. J.-C. — Terre cuite, argile rosée, engobe crème, partiellement conservé

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