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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 18 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 18 of 103

L 657-8Terracotta lampsType xxviii
L 657H. at least 2.7cm.

Photograph: label L 657, scale, lamp fragment

Part of reverse and side preserved Two pieces. Clay red brown with buff exterior. Shape probably round. Reverse concave. L 658 | [photograph: label L 658, scale, lamp fragment] | Rim Part of rim, side and discus. Clay redbrown inside, outside, partly, gray. Shape ovulas. Rim flat with traces of herring-bone. Discus, traces of design. Curium, Palace 4^th layer of southern Cistern. 11 April 1949, SF. no. 3 Fales, NB. IX, p. 40 L 656.7.8 may all be part of same lamp Roll II

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)

  • L 657 (number uncertain)Lamp fragmentnumber uncertain
  • L 658Lamp fragment

Also mentionedL 656

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