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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 89 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 89 of 121

L 444Terracotta lampType XXVIII

Max. dia. about 6.5m Only one half half of discus and rim with part of nozzle preserved. One piece. Clay buff in colour. Shape ovalar. Rim separated from discus by clock-wise herring bone pattern. Rim narrow and ovalar with pattern no of non-contiguous circles with disks in outside interspaces, rounded on outside by groove. In discus, cross with circles on end of arms and at crossing. In quadrants, circles arranged in triangle. Hole in quadrant. Nozzle in rim, P. T. O

[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 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 444 (number uncertain)Terracotta lampnumber uncertain

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