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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 17, folder 4·Undated

Kourion Complex, Architecture (A300–A429)

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

Scan 76 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 17, folder 4 (Kourion Complex, Architecture (A300–A429)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 17, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 76 of 95

A 410

Sandstone Fragment: Acanthus Leaf

PH 0.075 PL 0.165 PW 0.15

A corner piece, presumably meant to be seen from below. Broken to right and in back.

Top preserves finely tooled relieving surface front and left. Front and left side, a rectangular echinoslike member about 0.035 high. Below, a well-preserved acanthus leaf adapted to its corner position with rectangular central rib ending in bud-like structure. Parts of palmately compound leaf separated by drilled indentations. Bit of crowning moulding below preserves quarter-round and two small

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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 pageProbably Kourion Complex (city site and Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded

  • A 410Sandstone Fragment: Acanthus Leaf

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