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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 27 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 27 of 121

L 394 Terracotta lamp: Type xxviii Max. dia. 7.2 cm., H. 2.3 cm. Preserved all except for center of discus and hole in side. Clay buff with relatively smooth hard surface. No glaze. Shape circular but nozzle protrudes. Rim and discus separated by discus rising above rim. This rise more pronounced near handle, sloping down to nozzle where behind nozzle, a slight hollow. Rim decorated by branch with opposite leaves. Top of discus, marked spasmodically by small depressions, Handle solid unpierced and pointed edge on top. G Discus decorated with rosette. No base ring. Bottom hollow with inscription Roll 19 P.T.O

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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

  • L 394Terracotta lamp: Type xxviii

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