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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 12 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 12 of 103

L 647

Type XXVIII

Terracotta lamp Part of discus and rim preserved. Discus and part of discus and rim preserved. Clay brown with some mica, and peeling. Shape ovular. Rim set off from discus by herring bone pattern pointing to position of handle. On convex rim, vine pattern leave and cluster pattern. In discus, forepart of stag, moving from right to left. Collar at least double. Under raised fore-legs, letters AL. In back of legs, hole. Other above back. Curium, Palace Cellar of Room O 2 April 1949. S.F. no. 32 Fales, N.B. IT, p. 142.

Photograph

Roll 11

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 647Terracotta lamp

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