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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 94 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 94 of 121

L449 | Terracotta lamp | Type xxviii Clay brown, probably slipped. Only part of discus, part of rim and nozzle preserved. One piece. Shape probably ovalar. Rim separated from discus by herring bone pattern pointing toward where handle should be. Rim traces of raised decoration. In disc cur, animal running from right to left, hindquarters. Below animal, hole and traces of letters Λ 17Y . Nozzle in rim. Curium, Palace 4th layer of Cellar of Room O 15 April 1949, SF. no. 1 Tales, NB. III, 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

  • L449Terracotta lamp

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