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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 94 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 94 of 103

L 769

Terracotta lamp

Type XXVIII

Part of rim, discus, side and nozzle preserved.

Clay brown with traces of mica. Thick.

Shape ovular. On rim, rough raised herring-

bone pattern, pointing toward nozzle. The part

on either side of herring do not meet in center.

In center raised wheel with spokes.

Photograph

Roll 28

Curium, Palace

First layer. Room Gamma.

28 March 1949, SF. no. 8

Tales. NB. III, p. 115

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 769Terracotta lamp

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