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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 5 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 5 of 123

L 484

Terracotta Lamp

Type XXVIII

Max. dia. at least 6.6cm.

Preserved only part of discus, sides, rim, and nozzle.

Clay red-brown. No glaze on slip.

Shape ovular. Rim set off from discus by

herring bone pattern pointing toward position

of handle. Rim flower and leaf design. Traces

of design in discus. Hole, off center.

Curium, Palace

9th layer of cellar of Room O

21 April 1949, S.F. no. 6

Fales, NB. II, P. 97

[photograph]L 484Roll 6

one piece

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)

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 484Terracotta Lamp

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