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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 83 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 83 of 121

L 440Terracotta LampType XXVIII

Max. dia. about 6 cm by 7.08 cm. Only handle, part of rim and discus. one piece Clay Brown with hand smooth surface. In parts, worn. Shape ovular. In broad groove on rim, herring-bone pattern, pointing toward handle. On one side of handle, herring-bone pattern comes right up to handle; on other, circle, Deyon which point, broken off. In discus, human figure standing near rim, right hand holds vertical object about height of head, left hand extends into rim and holds vertical object extending down from rim and holds in front of handle. Handle solid. hand. Hole in front of handle. Handle solid. P.T.O.

[photograph] L440 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 pageProbably Kourion 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 440 (number uncertain)Lampnumber uncertain

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