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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 58 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 58 of 123

L 539

[photograph] L 539 A B Roll 8

Cf. L 523

E-G5-R

Two Fragments: Type XXVIII (not from same lamp)

Max dims (a) 0.053 (b) 0.035

(a) preserves handle and adjoining rim. Handle high, unpierced, projecting in back. On rim formalized branch outside, two rows of berries inside. Filling hole off center in discus. Clay rose buff at core, lighter outside.

(b) preserves rim section only. Buff clay with cream slip? Design branch with berries and tendrils, inside herringbone.

Curium, Palace Second layer north of bldg 11 Nov 1948 Small find 1

Fales NB I, p. 115

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 539Lamp fragments

Also mentionedL 523

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