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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 15 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 15 of 103

L 650-1-2-3-4 Terracotta lamps Type xxviii

L650 Piece of side and rim. Clay light brown. Shape ovular. On rim, flower and leaf pattern. L651 Piece of side and rim. Clay brown with possible gray slip. Joins L449 L652 Handle: Clay light brown. Shape ovular. Handle loop unpierced. L653 Piece of side and Reverse. Clay brown and peeling. Reverse concave. L654 Piece of side. Clay brown. Shape ovular. Tom L567. Curium, Palace L853 in all Cellar of Room O probably re cond. 2 April 1949, S.F. no.32 Fates, NB. III p. 142

Photograph: label L 652 with scale

Photograph: label L 653 with scale

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)

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 (5)

  • L650Lamp fragment
  • L651Lamp fragment
  • L652Lamp handle
  • L653Lamp fragment
  • L654Lamp fragment

Also mentionedL449, L567, L853

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