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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 2·Undated

Kourion Complex, Lamp (L954–L1118)

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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 2 (Kourion Complex, Lamp (L954–L1118)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 120

L 955 | Terracotta lamp | Type XXVIII 6.1 × 7.7 cm. Handle, discus, rim and most of nozzle. Brown possibly slipped. Shape ovalar. Rim set off from discus by herring bone pattern pointing toward handle Rim convex small leave and cluster pattern. In discus, horse proceeding from right to left, his right fore leg raised. Hole above back and another between fore-legs. Handle low unpierced. Curium, Palace, Middle Cistern. 25 Nov. '49 SF no. 1 Fakes. NB. IX, p. 104

Photograph; scale and L 955

Roll 21

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 955Terracotta lamp

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