Object card·SAL_4428·1968

Limestone weight with circular perforation, area south of the rampart

Limestone weight with circular perforation, area south of the rampart
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4428. "Limestone weight with circular perforation, area south of the rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Limestone (perhaps shell-bearing) weight, pierced along its full length by a circular hole widened by erosion, ø 7.3 cm, hole ø 0.7 cm, L. 10 cm, incomplete and heavily eroded, now ovoid in form, with rust traces on its surface recalling a metal part now lost. Found in a fill of the late 4th century BC, square K VI/δ4, area south of the rampart, Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory Po_0318; 30 September 1968.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart num planche : PL_15 carre : K VI/δ4 type :INSTRUMENTS DE MESURE ø :7,3 il est percé sur toute sa longueur d'un trou circulaire que l'érosion a élargi. Il présente à sa surface des traces de rouille qui rappellent une partie métallique aujourd'hui disparue. — Trouvé dans un déblai de la fin du IVe s. av. J.-C. diapositives : C_4415 forme : Poids en calcaire inv objet : Po_0318 negatif : 00764_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0124_p_0044 incomplet, le poids est complètement rongé. L. : 10 ø trou : 0,7. — Le poids très érodé a pris une forme ovoïde — Calcaire coquillé(?)

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