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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 90 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 90 of 123

L580-1

Terracotta Lamp

Type xxviii

L580 Handle and part of rim. Rim set off from discus by herring-bone pattern point clockwise, disregarding handle. On rim, circles. Handle unpierced and low. Lines indistinct. Clay soft. Ovular shape of lamp.

Roll 19

L581 Base of handle and rim. Clay gray brown with gray slip. Rim set off from discus herring-bone pattern, pointing toward handle. On rim, circles. Curium, Palace and layer of cellen of Room O 6 April 1949, SF no. 17 Fales, NB. IX, p. 23

Photograph

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 (2)

  • L580Terracotta Lamp
  • L581Lamp fragment

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