Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 17, folder 7·Undated

Kourion Complex, Coin (C)

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

Scan 12 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 17, folder 7 (Kourion Complex, Coin (C)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 17, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 67

C 1057

COIN - PTOLEMY ? Apollo, "ALTAR 2" S.W. LYING ON 2ND "STRATUM" (NOTE: 3RD STRATUM INCLUDES SURFACE SOIL) 4.24.36 . MC. F. IP. 147 No. 176

Cex: Late Ptolemaic, very worn, might well be Ptolemy XIII - 80 - 51 B.C. a. Something in D. field - Acrostolium? re. a marked swelling, a truncation of obverse head

F. DIAM. : 0.026 W: OBV: HEAD REV: 1057 is in all probability Svor. 1813, attributed to Ptolemy X or XIV or later, i.e. 117-80 B.C. + Reiting says probably later is correct, also says Cypriote. Cox: might well be P. XII. - 80 - 51 B.C.

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

Objects named on this pageKourion 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

C 1057Coin

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