Object card·SAL_7009·1972

Limestone disc with painted cross, Huilerie

Limestone disc with painted cross, Huilerie
Object card: 1972. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_7009. "Limestone disc with painted cross, Huilerie". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Small limestone disc, shaped like a slice of cylinder, with a hollow at the centre; diameter 5.7, thickness 2.5. One face is decorated with small contiguous painted red cavities forming a cross inscribed in a circle; the other face bears a very worn incised decoration. Archaic period; found in the Huilerie, square I III/ε3 (I III). Inventory Po_0742; 5 July 1972.

French, as on the record

Petit objet Po_0742 SAL_I_70000017_Po 19 Archaïque le centre est marqué d'un alvéole. ø 5,7 ép. 2,5. Disque en calcaire, en forme de tranche de cylindre. Sur l'une des faces, décor fait de petits alvéoles contigus peints en rouge, qui forment une croix inscrite dans un cercle. Sur l'autre face, décor incisé très effacé Huilerie I III I III/ε3

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