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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 16, folder 9·Undated

Kaloriziki, Terracotta (T)

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

Scan 4 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 16, folder 9 (Kaloriziki, Terracotta (T)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 16, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 4 of 8

T2017 K1146 Warrior Figurine on Display 54-12-154

Complete ; shield mended. Clay grayish green, rather coarse with small black impurities and many airholes. Paint matt gray black and matt red-brown, in spots faded to pink. Hollow tubular figurine flared at base and tapering 1884 shoulders, above which on thick neck sits a bulbular -32 but face fully modelled head crowned by a small axe-like crest. Tab-ears. Left upper arm goes directly to shield which covers entire front of body from left. Right arm swung in one continuous wave upwards so that r. h. (arm-line) grasps short pointed weapon at r. ear.

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

Objects named on this pageKaloriziki

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