Lenticular clay loom weight, Salamis area south of the rampart
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_5051. "Lenticular clay loom weight, Salamis area south of the rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.
Lenticular loom weight of green clay, roughly modelled, incomplete with a flake missing, diameter 7.7 x 6.9 cm, thickness 1.9 cm, weight 80 g, with two transverse holes and the thinned edge cut at the top; slightly biconvex. Found in square K VI/δ4 among Hellenistic sherds with a lamp of the late 4th to early 3rd century BC (Sal. 5054), Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory Po_0403; 4 September 1969.
French, as on the record
chantier : Zone au sud du rempart
num planche : PL_25
carre : K VI/δ4
forme : Type lenticulaire.
type :PESONS
grossièrement modelé
incomplet, un éclat manque. ø :7,7 x 6,9
le pourtour aminci est coupé au sommet
légèrement biconvexe
poids : 80 g. — Lenticulaire
ép. : 1,9
diapositives : C_5098
inv objet : Po_0403
negatif : 01173_01
pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0241_p_0083
deux trous transversaux. — Trouvé parmi des tessons hellénistiques avec une lampe de la fin du IVe-début du IIIe s. av. J.-C. (Sal. 5054)
— Terre cuite, argile verte
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