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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 48 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 48 of 120

L 838 Terracotta Lamp Type XXVIII Handle part of rim and discus. Clay gray with buff slip. Shape ovalar. Rim set off from discus by clockwise herring-bone pattern. On narrow toprim, noncontiguous circles with dots in outer interspaces. In discus, hole joint to below handle, to one side. Traces of design. Handle low and solid. Curium, Palace 3rd layer south of Room W 19 March 1949, S.F. no. 9 Falcs, NB III, p. 85 Roll 16

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

  • L 838Terracotta Lamp

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