Object card·SAL_3173·1965

Bronze fork-shaped implement with socket, Campanopetra

Bronze fork-shaped implement with socket, Campanopetra
Object card: 1965. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_3173. "Bronze fork-shaped implement with socket, Campanopetra". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Bronze implement in the form of a fork, its two prongs thin tongues of unequal width joined at one end to form a socket by which the tool was fitted to a handle; L. 7.2 cm, socket ø 0.6 cm, thickness 0.6 cm. Many similar pieces were brought to light between 1970 and 1974 in the Byzantine house of the building known as the "huilerie" (oil press). Inventory B_0140; slide C_3022; negative 00176; 1965.

French, as on the record

chantier : Campanopétra num planche : PL_13 — Bronze forme : Accessoires divers en bronze type :Bronze complet? L. : 7,2 ø douille : 0,6 1. : 0,6. — Élément en forme de fourche dont les dents sont deux minces languettes d'inégale largeur. Les languettes sont soudées l'une à l'autre à l'une de leur extrémité, et forment une douille qui permet à l'instrument d’être emmanché. — De nombreux éléments semblables à celui-ci ont été mis au jour entre 1970 et 1974 dans la maison byzantine du bâtiment dit de « l’huilerie ». diapositives : C_3022 inv objet : B_0140 negatif : 00176 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0114_p_0040

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