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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 60 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 60 of 103

L 719

Terracotta lamp Type XXVIII

H., 3cm. holes.

Preserved all of nozzle, reverse, part of side,

discus and rim. Eight pieces.

Clay rough coarse and thick with many small

Shape roughly circular. Rim set off from

discus by small ridge. Rim flat between

two incised herringbone pointing toward nozzle

Line of pearls cut by incised herringbone. In

discus, rosette, with pointed petals with

straight. Each petal marked by three straight

lines, one in center, one on each side.

Reverse, slightly concave. P. T. O

[photograph] L 719 Roll 12

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 719Terracotta lamp

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