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 74 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 74 of 121

L 432 | Terracotta lamp | Type XXVIII Max. Di. about 6cm. H. 3cm. Missing part of handle and rim; most of discus, reverse and sides. 2 pieces. Clay red-brown. Surface, hard and smooth. No glaze or slip. Ovalar shape. Rim set off from discus by raised herring-bone pattern pointing toward handle. Rim ovular. With grape cluster pattern. On one side of handle, two raised circles; on other, three and probably four. Fourth erased by clay from side, as much of pattern on this side. Discus, stag, running from right to left. Handle unpierced but broken. Reverse no base-ring but possibly traces of raised letters. P. T. O.

Photograph

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 pageProbably Kourion Complex (city site and Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates)

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Recorded

  • L 432Terracotta lamp

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