Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 13·1938–1980

Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 10 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 13 (Kourion Complex (Apollo) pre 1945), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 13, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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Fig 1. View from the site of the ancient city of Curium, looking north toward the mountains.

Fig 2. Looking toward the Site of the ancient Sanctuary of Apollo.

3 On the very morning that the excavations on The first find on the morning when my the Sanctuary site were begun, the above stele or stone post was discovered. It bore the full showed on the front the words "Sanctuary of Apollo", on the right side "Welcome", and on the left "Farewell". that excavation began [illegible] -- The inscription in ancient read "Sancty of Ap." "Hylates"

(17) Fallen wall of South Building. The jambs of the doors of the building and the columns of the Stoa appear among the ruins.

Map of Cyprus.

(18) Marble inscription in Greek, in which the word Prytaneion occurs, perhaps the ancient name of the South Building.

21 Greek Altar in use from the Archaic period into Hellenistic times. It jam-full of terra cotta figurines and other ex-voto offerings. Roman drainage in foreground.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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