Object card·SAL_5563·1970

Bronze weight with cross and ΝΓ inscription, Campanopetra

Bronze weight with cross and ΝΓ inscription, Campanopetra
Object card: 1970. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_5563. "Bronze weight with cross and ΝΓ inscription, Campanopetra". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Bronze discoidal weight, complete and oxidized, diameter 1.93 cm, with a very small body whose edge is hollowed by two grooves of unequal width and a projecting moulding on both faces. The upper face bears, within a border of incised herringbone pattern, a cross with equal triangular arms, and beneath it the letters ΝΓ (3 nomismata); the lower face is decorated with a circle. Campanopetra, square L IV/δ9. Inventory M_0771; 21 April 1970.

French, as on the record

chantier : Campanopétra carre : L IV/δ9 num planche : PL_15 sous cette croix sont disposées les lettres ΝΓ (3 nomismata) la face supérieure présente, dans un champ délimité par une couronne incisée en arête de poisson, une croix à bras triangulaires égaux complet, oxydé. ø : 1,93. — Poids discoïdal très petit, dont la tranche est creusée de deux rainures d'inégale largeur. Sur les deux faces la tranche forme une moulure débordante. La face inférieure est décorée d'un cercle forme : Poids en bronze inv objet : M_0771 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0129_p_0045 type :INSTRUMENTS DE MESURE — Bronze

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