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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 18, folder 8·Undated

Kourion Complex, Lamp (L631–L780)

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 103 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 18, folder 8 (Kourion Complex, Lamp (L631–L780)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 18, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 103 of 103

L779-80 | Terracotta lamp | Type XXV [photograph] L779 [photograph] L780 Roll 1H L779 Preserved part of rim, discus and navel. Clay red brown. Shape circular. Rim set off from discus by slight ridge. On rim, smallish contiguous ovules, next to ridge. Discus plain except for line around center hole. L780 Piece of reverse and side. Clay red-brown. Reverse flat. Probably same lamp as L779. Curium, Theater At foot of west wall of south part of theater with plaster frag. 5 June 1949. S.F. no. 1 Fales, NB.V, p. 133

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 (2)

  • L779Terracotta lamp
  • L780Terracotta lamp

Also mentionedL779, L780

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