Object card·SAL_5927·1970

Stone game board (marelles), Campanopetra

Stone game board (marelles), Campanopetra
Object card: 1970. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_5927. "Stone game board (marelles), Campanopetra". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

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English, translated from the French record

Game board for marelles (Campanopetra, square L IV/α7; inventory Po_0538; negatives 04867_03, 05300_01, 04867_02). Rectangular limestone slab, preserved as two joining fragments of which only one half of the game survives; the board measures 22 x 23.5 cm, and the slab 36 x 35 x 6.5 cm. The slab was reused as a bench in the atrium of the basilica at Campanopetra; the engraved game is similar to Sal_6356, with twenty-four intersection points. Inventory SAL_5927; 10 October 1970.

French, as on the record

chantier : Campanopétra forme : Marelles num planche : PL_53 type :TABLES A JEU jeu : 22 x 23,5. — Plaque rectangulaire dont la partie conservée, est constituée de deux fragments qui se rejoignent carre : L IV/α7 inv objet : Po_0538 le fragment de la plaque ne conserve qu’une moitié du jeu. 36 x 35 x 6,5 negatif : 04867_03 negatif : 05300_01 negatif : 04867_02 pub : SAL_PUB_139904_XI_XI_CAT_06_0574_p_0194 cette plaque fut remployée comme banc dans l'atrium de la basilique de la Campanopétra. Le jeu gravé est semblable à Sal_6356, avec vingt-quatre points d’intersection. — Calcaire sédimentaire

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