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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 31 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 31 of 120

L 819 | Teracotta lamp | Type xxviii Max. dia. across 6.2cm. Preserved handle, part of rim and discus. Clay brown. Shape ovalar. Rim set off from discus by herring-bone pointing to handle. On convex rim, vine leaf and cluster pattern. On one side of handle four circles, two on either side of branch, on other only three. In discus stag moving from right to left. Reins and at least double collar Behind antlers, inscrip letters OMV. Above back behind neck hole, and between fore-legs, hole. P. T. O.

Photograph

Roll 15

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 819Lamp

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