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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 82 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 82 of 121

L 439Terracotta LampType XXVIII

Max. dia. 6.9 cm.

Only part of rim and discus with handle preserved. One piece.

Clay creamy with cams.

Shape ovular. Rim set off from discus by faint traces

of herring-bone pattern, pointing in the direction of

handle. On outer rim traces of flower and leave pattern.

By handle on one side, traces of four circles. Nozzle

in rim. In discus, stag with double collar running

from left to right right to left. Double collar.

Under legs, letter Λ. Hole in front of handle. Handle,

unpierced and low. / Curium, Palace, 4th layer of celler of Room Q

15 April 1949, S.F. no. 1, Fates, NB, IX, p. 66.

Photograph

Photograph

Roll 5

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 439Terracotta Lamp

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