Object card·SAL_7466·1972

Funerary cippus with inscription, Campanopetra

Funerary cippus with inscription, Campanopetra
Object card: 1972. Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine (MOM, Lyon), Nakala, SAL_7466. "Funerary cippus with inscription, Campanopetra". CC BY 4.0. Resized.

Object card

English, translated from the French record

Cippus of white marble with blue veining, polished on both lateral faces, dressed at the back and broken at the base; the upper part is pitted, and the central part of the inscribed face is lost, cut away when the cippus was reused in the north wall of the west courtyard of Campanopetra, where a post was fitted into it. Dimensions: 23.8 max. x 39.5 x 26 cm; H. (sic) 3.5 cm. Square K V/β2, Campanopetra, Salamis, probably 2nd century BC; inventory E_0161; 3 October 1972.

French, as on the record

chantier : Campanopétra h.l. : 3,5 cm. carre : K V/β2 epoque : IIe siècle av. J.-C. ? inv objet : E_0161 objet : Les inscriptions funéraires pub : SAL_PUB_139900_XIII_CAT_13_0178_p_0072 type :Les funéraires simples la partie supérieure est piquetée. Le cippe a été remployé dans le mur nord de la cour ouest de la Campanopétra : la partie centrale de la face inscrite a été entaillée pour l'encastrement d'un poteau Cippe de marbre blanc veiné de bleu, poli sur les deux faces latérales, dressé à l'arrière, brisé au bas la partie centrale de l'inscription a disparu lors du remploi. Dimensions : 23,8 max. x 39,5 x 26

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