Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 11·1946–1947

J. H. Young, III Kourion Complex 1946–1947John Howard Young

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

Scan 18 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 11 (J. H. Young, III Kourion Complex 1946–1947), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 10, folder 11, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 18 of 108

37. PAPHOS Aug. 12, 1948

We arrived here late in the morning & spent the time before lunch in cataloguing the three we had noted of Curium molds in 1946. Two (of mold 4A & 2B) are registered as from Kato Paphos, while the third (probably of mold 5) was turned in by a villager of nearby Timi, but with the statement that it had been bought from an antiquities dealer in Nicosia. Examination of terracottas from the area amply supports the previous identification of the clay with crushed-tile temper as Paphian.

In addition to these surely from Curium, one unmolded thud in Curium style was catalogued, & two pieces possibly made in Curium are: (a) an unmolded solid deer (Paphos 73 E.83, 1938, from Kato Paphos) very much like such figs. from Curium, the head is turned to the animal's left. The clay like early white.

Drawing: deer] PH 0.073

PH 0.100

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(b) a frgmt of [word struck out, illegible] (38) hollow head like our "mid-size group" from the Archaic Precinct. Clay also like this. PH 0.060 (Paphos 853)

This is from Kouklia with 10 other archaic Paphian pieces from a place called Arkatsia. Possibly from dump? Figures are female, some with tambourines.

Another interesting piece (Paphos 841 from Koiladha of Palia) resembling some of our unmolded is a horse & rider of greyish clay which may be Amathusian.

Drawing: horse and rider

207: Upper body of rider, chariotter or votary, solid unmolded. Clay type of Amathus, but black grit coarser. Pellet mouth, Bard 2

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

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