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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 59 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 59 of 121

L 419 Terracotta lamp Type XXVIII Max. dia. 6.1cm H. 2.2cm. Handle, part of discus, rim, side and bottom preserved, as well as non-contiguou piece of discus, rim and by nozzle. Clay coarse and red with light brown slip Shape circular. Rim set off from discus by ridge marked on either side by groove. On outside of rim, ridge; in rim, herring-bone pattern, pointing at handle; on one side pattern very irregular. Rays emanating from hole in discus. Handle unpierced and flat. On front above, discus, traces of grooves, as well as on one side. Base-ring. Curium, Palace

Photograph

Roll 4 P.T.O.

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)

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 419Terracotta lamp

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