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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 22 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 22 of 121

L 390 Terracotta lamp Type XXV

Max. Diá 6.4, H. 2.1 cm. All preserved except outer bit of nozzle and most of discus. Clay buff with no slip. Shape circular. Rim and discus separated by ridge Discus decorated by design most of which lost. Rim has leaves imprinted indistinctly and slanting not at rightangles to edge. Base ring. Handle high and well pierced. Front above discus has single indentation.

Roll 1

Photograph

Curium, Palace In West section under flag-stones. 24 March 1949, SF. no.1 For leaves slantwise to edge of rim cf. Broneer, Terracotta lamps, Fig.38.10+11 Fales, NB. III, p.103

65 figures hard to readstruck 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)

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Recorded

  • L 390Terracotta lamp Type XXV

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