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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Scan 9 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.

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18. Op.cit. It would be particularly desirable to bring Chapot's list of actual monumental remains (p.123 ff.; cf. also p.88) - as opposed to representations, models, etc. - up to date. For example, recent excavations in Pompeii have pushed back to at least 79 A.D. the occurrence of spirally fluted columns in actually known buildings: ILN(Nov.6, 1954) 802 Fig.2. Apparently numerous fragments exist in Cyrenia: cf. B.Maiuletti, "Le Fonte dell' Architettura Romana in Cirenaica", Revista delle Colonie Italiana IV Pt.2 (1930)

Handwritten: Sabratha

685 Pl.M. The references to Salamis, Soli, Curium and Antioch in this paper should also be added.

19. I am grateful to the late Prof. E.Baldwin Smith for discussing this problem with me. For a recent treatment of stage settings, see A.M.G.Little, "A Roman Bourcebook for the Stage" AJA 60(1956)27-33.

20. Prof. Sjöqvist has called my attention to a recent local study of this sort: J.B.Ward Perkins, "The Shrine of St.Peter and Its Twelve Spiral Columns" JHS 42 (1952) 21-33.

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