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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 65 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 65 of 121

L423 | Terracotta Lamp Type XXVIII Max. dia. about 7.2cm, H. about 3cm. | 3 pieces. Missing most of nozzle, sides, and bottom, part of discus + rim. Clay light brown with small particles of darker colour. Finish of surface rough with small holes. No glaze on slip. Shape circular. On rim, traces of herring-bone pattern, pointing toward handle. In discus, traces of shape On some rosette. Handle unpierced and thick. No base ring pointed petals | 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

Photograph with label: L423

Roll 4

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

  • L423Terracotta Lamp Type XXVIII

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