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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 13 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 13 of 103

L 648 | Type XXVIII Terracotta lamp [photograph] L 648 Roll 11 Handle, part of side, rim and discus. Clay Brown shape ocular. Rim separated by set off from discus by herring-bone pattern, pointing toward handle. On rim, two rows of circles. Those on outside smaller and in interspaces of inner. Inner now barely touching one another. Trace of design in discus. Handle solid. Curium. Palace Cellar of Room 0 2 April 1949, SF. no.32 Falcs, NB. III p. 142.

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 648 (number uncertain)Terracotta lampnumber uncertain

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