Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 17, folder 6·Undated

Kourion Complex, Bone (Bo)

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

Scan 2 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 17, folder 6 (Kourion Complex, Bone (Bo)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 17, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 22

BONES ALT. 2

BONES. From Altar 2. All, from all sections.

(Private communication from J. L. Angel, May 6, 49.

"I have finally got around to finding the animal bones in a cubical box labelled 'Ἀπολλωνα βωμός 2, ‘Ὄλα τὰ κόκκαλα and lying on the next to the top shelf to the left of the court window of the eastern apotheke. There are no human bone fragments included. As far as I can tell they consist in: 4 basal phalanges of a large animal, I am pretty sure bovine; two lower (elbow) ends of the humerus of a small animal, almost certainly sheep or goat; 3 scapular fragments (ditto animals); 1 pelvic fragment, perhaps bovine; 5 vertebral fragments (ditto animals); 1 condyle and posterior strip of mandibular ramys of sheep or goat; 1 molar tooth of sheep or goat, or conceivably small deer; 1 articular end (lower tibia ??) of cow, two large and small animal rib (OVER)

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

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