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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 68 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 68 of 103

L 728

Type XXVIII

Terracotta lamp

Handle, part of rim and discus preserved. Clay brown inside. Brown to gray outside. Shape ovalar. Rim separated from discus by two rows of depressed dots. On rim, herring-bone pattern, rough and large pointing to handle. In discus, rosette with petals points rounded. Hole in center of discus, with another hole, below and to one side of handle. Handle large unpierced. side of handle.

Curium, Palace Third layer in entrance to cellar of Room O 30 April 1949, SF. no. 17 Fales, NB, II, P. 124

Photograph: black and white image of a lamp, with scale and label L728, 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 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

  • L 728Terracotta lamp

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