Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 1·c. 1955

Kourion Complex Palace (Mosaics) Fales, c. 1955 (2 of 2)De C. Fales (probably)

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

Scan 37 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 1 (Kourion Complex Palace (Mosaics) Fales, c. 1955 (2 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 1, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 37 of 67

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362.PG 37, 630.

363.F.C.Conybeare, Rituale Armenorum, (Oxford,1905),p.428.

364.PG 36,413.

365.PG 33,1092.

366.Didascalia et Constitutiones Apostolorum, edited by F.X.Funk, Vol.I, (Paderborn,1905),p.450.

367.PG 37, 360 [handwritten: cf. NT, Ephesians, 5,2.]

368.DeC.Fales,Jr, Kourion-The Amusement Area, The University of Pennsylvania, Vol.XIV, no.4 Museum Bulletin, The University (June,1950),plate VII,entitled Long Mosaic.

369.Ibidem, and p.34. That this is a picture of a partridge is shown by the following description [handwritten: ὑπηρεύεται δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ ἱεράκος, ἐστι δὲ ὀξύδρομον τοις ποδί, πέτεται δ'ὀλίγον, καὶ κρύπτεται ἐν τῷ δασεῖ ... ἔστι δὲ δεικνύων ὅτι τεθνηκεν, λανθάνων τὸν δηρευτήν ... ἔχων ἐν τῷ νώτῳ πτέρα πυκνὰ, μείζότερος περιστερᾶς, ἔχων ἐν τῷ νώτῳ πτέρα πυκνά, μείζότερος περιστερᾶς, καὶ τῷ στήθει ἀσπρολαμπρο-κάτωθεν τῶν πτερύγων καὶ τῷ στήθει ἀσπρολαμπρο-πολυποικίλα, κεφαλὴ μικρὸν κόκκινον καὶ μαύρον, τράχηλον μαύρον κεκοσμημένον τῇ ὡραιότητι, ὀφθαλμοὺς μικρούς κοκκινους. Προμηθῆς μικροί καὶ κόκκινοι, τρίχας ἐν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς. φέρων κόκκινους. πόδες μικροί καὶ κόκκινοι ἐπιξαρδιζῶν, καὶ ὄνυχας μαῦροι. κέρας μικρὸν καὶ λαμπρὰ φωνὴ πετροπλαγκοι λαδισθῆς ἔχε φρών, λαμπρὰ φωνὴ καὶ λιγυρὰ ἀντιδονοῦσα πλέον ὀργάνων τε καὶ μουσικῆς ὁμοίως καὶ ψάλτηρας.]

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