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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 1·Undated

Kourion Complex, Lamp (L781–L953)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 2 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 1 (Kourion Complex, Lamp (L781–L953)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 1, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 120

L 783 | Type XXVIII Terracotta lamp Part of rim and discus preserved. Clay redbrown. Possibly buff slip on rim. Shape ovular. Rim set off from discus by herring-bone pointing toward nozzle. On convex discus, non-contiguous disks circles with circles in outer interspaces. In discus, cross with circles on end of arm. Circles triangularly arranged in quadrants. Holes in quadrants. Curium. Palace 5th layer East of Room W 11 March 1949, SF. no. 1 Fales. NB. III. p. 51 [photograph] L783 Roll 14

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)

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Recorded

  • L 783 (number uncertain)Terracotta lampnumber uncertain

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