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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 64 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 64 of 121

L 422 | Terracotta lamp | Type XXVIII Max. dia. as preserved 4.6 cm. Only central part of discus with figure. Clay light brown. No slip. Concave. Figure of winged infant (amorini?) carrying basket or pail in right hand. In left, another object. Across chest band, marked by two dense depressed lines. Hole lower right side.

[photograph]L422
[photograph]L422

The same subject probably from same mould, L 392

Roll 4

Curium, Palace Toward bottom of second fill from bottom of cistern East of Room W 2 April 1949, SF no. 13 Fales. NB III, p. 140

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 422 (number uncertain)Terracotta lampnumber uncertain

Also mentionedL 392

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