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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 18, folder 7·Undated

Kourion Complex, Lamp (L481–L630)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 117 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 18, folder 7 (Kourion Complex, Lamp (L481–L630)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 18, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 117 of 123

L 620

Type XXVIII

Terracotta lamp

at least Max. dia. 7 cm. H. 2.6 cm.

Preserved handle, part of discus, rim, nozzle,

side and reverse. Three pieces.

Clay whitish. No slip on glaze set off

Shape ovular. Discus separated from rim

by clockwise herringbone pattern. On convex

rim, circles with dots in outer interspaces.

In discus, cross with circles at end of

arms and at intersection. In quadrants

circles arranged in triangular. Holes in

diagonally opposite quadrants. All

lines indistinct. P. T. O.

[photograph] Roll 10

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 620Terracotta lamp

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