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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 36 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 36 of 103

L 686Terracotta lampType XXVIII

Max. dia. about 8.5 cm.

Clay red-brown to brown.

Handle, part of rim, discus, nozzle, and side

preserved. One piece.

Shape ovalar. On one side of rim, convex handle on rim,

herring-bone, pointing toward handle; on other

side of rim handle, to next to handle

two circles in row. Then wolf or fox

running away from handle, then man

with short legs and hands up raised. Perhaps

woman. Feet near nozzle. In discus, five

vertical bars joined above and below

P. TO.

[photograph] L 686[photograph] L 686Roll 28

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

Objects named on this pageProbably Kourion 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

  • L 686Terracotta lamp

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