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 3 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 3 of 123

L483 Terracotta lamp Type XXVIII Only part of discus and rim preserved. Clay grey but with traces of black as if from fire. Shape circular. Rim set off from discus by small depressed marks. On rim, traces of two depressed lines. In discus, erotic symplegma. Figure leaning against a support, holds another with his hand another who straddles his legs and places his hands around his neck. In back of this second figure, another who places his hands under arms of second. Hole of discus behind third figure. P.T.O. [photograph] with labels: L483 | CM. Roll 6 For similar subject v. L410

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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Recorded

  • L483Terracotta lamp · probably Kourion Complex (city site and Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates)

Also mentionedL410

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