Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 3·c. 1955

Kourion Complex (Stadium) “Fluted Columns in Cypress” Benson c. 1955Jack L. Benson

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

Scan 16 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 3 (Kourion Complex (Stadium) “Fluted Columns in Cypress” Benson c. 1955), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 16 of 28

4 site of Curium. If Ross actually saw complete columns in situ about in 1845, as his statement seems to imply, then local builders must have since hauled them away. And this seems anyway the best explanation for the presence of the large fragments in the two places mentioned. A complete canvass of the neighborhood might produce still more evidence of this sort.

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

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