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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 30 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 30 of 120

L 816-7-8 L 816 Terracotta lamps Type XXVIII. L816 · Piece of reverse and side Clay brown L817 · Handle and part of rim. Clay brown with buff slip. Shape ovalan. Rim set off from discus by rough herring pointing toward handle. On rim, vine with two circles on each side. Handle unpierced L 818 Piece of nozzle and side Clay brown. Curium, Palace 1st layer, south of wall, south of building 16 April 1949, SF. no. 12 Fales. NB. IV, p. 77. Roll 15 [photograph] [photograph] [photograph]

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 (3)

  • L 816Terracotta lamp fragment
  • L 817Terracotta lamp fragment
  • L 818Terracotta lamp fragment

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