Object card·SAL_4743·1969

Flask with flat base and piriform body, Salamis

Flask with flat base and piriform body, Salamis
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_4743. "Flask with flat base and piriform body, Salamis". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Flask with a projecting flat base, piriform body, and concave neck with a central ridge; the rim is turned inward, with traces of the handle from the ridge of the neck to the shoulder projection. Red clay, wheel-made, with visible firing differences; alabastron-type form with a projecting shoulder. H. 16.4 cm, diam. 4.6 cm. Sector: area south of the rampart, square K VI/γ4 (west). Inventory V_0675; negatives 05697_04 and 01060_03; slide C_4750. Salamis, Cyprus; 26 August 1969.

French, as on the record

objet : Flacon carre : K VI/γ4 (ouest) Flacon, base plate saillante, panse piriforme, col concave à arête centrale. Lèvre rentrée, traces de l'anse de l'arête du col à la saillie de l'épaule. Argile rouge. Différences de cuisson visibles, tourné. Particularités, forme d'alabastre, saillie de l'épaule. H. 16,4, diam. 4,6 diapositives : C_4750 inv objet : V_0675 negatif : 05697_04 negatif : 01060_03 chantier : Zone au sud du rempart

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