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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 91 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 91 of 121

L 445, L 446 Terracotta Lamp Type xxviii

[photograph] Roll 5

Margin left: L 445

H. 29cm, at least H. at least 2.6cm. Only rim and part of side preserved. Clay red inside, buff on outside. Outside hand and smooth. No glaze or slip. Buff slip Shape ovular. Rim ^circvularan set off from discus by series of shortlines and from side grove. On rim grape-vine pattern.

L 446 same L445, but possibly with slip. Curium, Palace 4th layer of cellar of Room 0 15 April 1949, SF. no1 Fakes. NB. IX, p. 66.

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)

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Recorded (2)

  • L 445Terracotta Lamp
  • L 446Terracotta Lamp

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