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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 18, folder 6·Undated

Kourion Complex, Lamp (L308–L480)

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

Scan 120 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 18, folder 6 (Kourion Complex, Lamp (L308–L480)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 18, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 120 of 121

L479

Tenacotta lamp Type XXVIII Max. dia. 6.7 cm, H. 2.3 cm. one piece Missing nozzle, part of bottom, side, discus and handle Clay brown with reddish tinge. No glaze. No slip Shape circular. Rim separated from discus by ridge with small row of depressed dots on top. Rim, large loose herring bone pattern painting toward handle. Inner part of which becomes smaller toward nozzle. On top of discus, herring bone clockwise. In discus floral design, probably above volutes. Two indistinct, holes. No base ring. Reverse hollow. "All lines in discus, Curium, Palate, 9th layer of cellar of Room O 21 April 1949, S.F. no. 5, Tales N.B. IV, P. 97

Photograph; labels on photo: L479, cm

Roll 6

For discus n. L475, L478

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

  • L479Terracotta lamp

Also mentionedL475, L478

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