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 85 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 85 of 121

L 441 | Terracotta lamp | Type XXV [photograph] L441 Roll 5 Max-dia. about 6 cm., by about 7or 8 cm. Only handle, part of rim and discus. One piece Clay pannis pink. Hard smooth surface. No glaze or slip. Shape ovular. Rim set off from discus by degenerate herring-bone pattern with lines on either side of central line parallel and not pointing. On ovular flower pattern, not distinct. In discus, trace of design. Hole in front of handle. Handle unpierced Curium, Palace 15 April 1949 S.F. no. 1 4th layer of cellar of Room O Tales, N.B. IV, p. 66.

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

  • L 441Terracotta lamp

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