Object card·SAL_4454·1968

Lenticular terracotta loom weight, south of the rampart

Lenticular terracotta loom weight, south of the rampart
Object card: 1968. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4454. "Lenticular terracotta loom weight, south of the rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Lenticular loom weight (peson) of green clay terracotta with a single transverse hole, one face flat and the other slightly convex, the edge thinned; complete but chipped, ø 6.1 x 6 cm, ø of hole 0.4 cm, thickness 1.3 cm, weight 55 g. Found in the dump of terracotta figurines of the 5th-4th centuries BC, square K VI/δ4, area south of the rampart, Salamis; inventory Po_0319, slide C_4440, negative 00773_06, plate PL_25. 1 October 1968.

French, as on the record

num planche : PL_25 carre : K VI/δ4 modelé forme : Type lenticulaire. type :PESONS une face plate, une face légèrement bombée le pourtour est aminci ø trou : 0,4 complet mais ébréché. ø : 6,1 x 6 poids : 55 g. — Lenticulaire ép. : 1,3 Peson — Terre cuite, argile verte diapositives : C_4440 inv objet : Po_0319 negatif : 00773_06 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0245_p_0084 un seul trou transversal. — Trouvé dans le déblai de figurines de terre cuite des Ve-IVe s. av. J.-C. chantier : Zone au sud du rempart

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