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 79 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 79 of 121

L 436 | Terracotta lamp | Type XXVIII Max. dia. 6.5 cm. Missing bottom, most of sides + nozzle. Part of discus + rim. 4 pieces Clay creamy with hard smooth surface, No glaze on slip. Shape circular. Rim separated from discus by herring-bone pattern, all pointing in clock-wise direction. On green rim ovular rim, circles non contiguous, and interspaced on outside, by disks. Handle non pierced. Discus two holes probably in diagonally opposite quadrants of cross Probably. Three circles arranged in triangle in quadrants.

Photograph

Roll 5 For similar arrangement, v. L401 Curium, Palace 4th layer of cellar of Room O 15 April 1949, SF. no. 1, Fakes, NB. IV, p. 66

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ 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

L 436Terracotta lamp

Also mentionedL401

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