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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 7 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 7 of 123

L 486 | Terracotta Lamp | Type XXVIII Max. dia. at least 8cm. One piece. Only part of rim, discus and nozzle preserved. Clay gray. Darken on under side. Slipped? Shape circular. Rim set off from discus raised flat ridge on discus side of which, as a slightly lower ridge with incised line in center. Rim large loose herring bone pattern in discus, rosette. Hole off center. Curium, Palace 9th layer of cellar of Room 0 21 April 1949. SF. no. 6 Fakes. NB. IV, p.97 [photograph] L 486 [photograph] L 486 Roll 6

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

  • L 486Terracotta Lamp

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