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 44 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 44 of 120

L834 Terracotta lamp Type XXVIII Handle, discus, part of rim and nozzle preserved. Clay red brown. Shape ovular. Rim set off from discus by herring bone pattern pointing to handle. On convex rim, vine leaf and cluster pattern. Four circles, two on each side of vine on one side of handle on other, two. Behind rim, series of lines III. In discus stag moving from right to left, with at least double collar. Hole above back, hole under belly. In back of antlers letters OTH in raised letters. Bein to mouth of stag. Handle umpierced. P. T. O. [photograph] [labels: L 834 CM] Roll 16

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)

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Recorded

  • L 834Terracotta lamp

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