Object card·SAL_5260·1969

Bronze suspension fitting with hooks, area south of the rampart

Bronze suspension fitting with hooks, area south of the rampart
Object card: 1969. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_5260. "Bronze suspension fitting with hooks, area south of the rampart". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Bronze suspension fitting, incomplete; L. of intact element 9.8 cm, l. 1.6 cm, thickness 0.1 cm. The fragment has two flat tabs widened at their centres, each with a circular appendage at its end pierced by a hole. A third similar tab ends in a trapezoidal appendage, also pierced by a circular hole. The three elements are joined by a figure-of-eight link, and from the end of one tab, linked by a figure-of-eight link, hangs a large simple hook of circular-section wire. Square K VI/γ5, area south of the rampart, Salamis, Cyprus. Inventory B_0173; 11 September 1969.

French, as on the record

chantier : Zone au sud du rempart num planche : PL_22 carre : K VI/γ5 — Bronze type :FIXATION ET SUSPENSION forme : Éléments de suspension incomplet. L. élément intact : 9,8 l. : 1,6 diapositives : C_5292 inv objet : B_0173 negatif : 01248_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0213_p_0073 ép. : 0,1. — Le fragment comporte deux languettes plates élargies dans leur partie centrale et munies à leurs extrémités d'appendices circulaires percés d'un trou. Une troisième languette similaire est munie à son extrémité d'un appendice trapézoïdal percé lui aussi d'un trou circulaire. Les trois éléments sont reliés entre eux au moyen d'un maillon en 8. A l'extrémité d'une des languettes, et relié à elle grâce à un maillon en 8, pend un grand crochet simple fait d’un fil de section circulaire.

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