Object card·SAL_3165·1965

Rectangular bone box lid, Campanopetra

Rectangular bone box lid, Campanopetra
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3165. "Rectangular bone box lid, Campanopetra". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Rectangular bone box, inventory Po_0213, Campanopetra, Salamis, Cyprus; perhaps a box lid. Bone; length 6.3 cm (complete), width 1.9 cm, thickness 0.2 cm. The rectangular plaque is extended at each upper corner by a small triangular projection; the surface is decorated with twelve small incised circles, dotted at their centres, arranged roughly symmetrically about the median axes of the plate. The back of the plate is plain and polished. Inventory SAL_3165; 16 April 1965.

French, as on the record

chantier : Campanopétra num planche : PL_71 num planche : PL_49 l. : 1,9 negatif : 00177 complet. L. : 6,3 dessin : D_0028 diapositives : C_3014 forme : Boîte en os rectangulaire inv objet : Po_0213 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0513_p_0178 type :Boîtes en os ép. : 0,2. — Plaquette rectangulaire prolongée à chacun des coins supérieurs par une petite projection triangulaire. La surface est décorée de douze petits cercles incisés, pointés en leur centre, qui sont disposés d'une façon grossièrement symétrique par rapport aux axes médians de la plaque. Le dos de la plaque est uni et poli avec certitude. — Couvercle de boîte? — Os

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