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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 77 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 77 of 123

L 563Terracotta lampType XXVIII
Max. dia. 7.6 cm.H. at least, 1.9 cm
Reverse and part of sides with support of nozzleand handle one Two pieces.

Clay brown. 𐄂 No slip or glaze.

Shape ovular. Hole of discus was off center.

Reverse concave with raised inscription.

Drawing: inscription TOPC / 𐄂 YXH

Curium, Palace2nd layer of cellars of Room O6 April 1949. No. 17Fales. NB IV, p. 23

Photograph; labels: L 563, cm.

Roll 9

This may join L 596

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 563Terracotta lamp

Also mentionedL 596

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