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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 3·Undated

Kourion Complex, Lamp (L1119–L1265)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 34 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 3 (Kourion Complex, Lamp (L1119–L1265)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 34 of 120

L 1156Terracotta LampType XXVII
Part of side, bottom, rim and discus missing.Awow 6.2 x 7. 2cm high. Shape circular.Clay light brown. Rib set off from discus byraised line. Ovules on rim, Discus plain exceptfor circular raised line about half-waybetween hole and side. Small hole in discus.Handle pierced, squarish appearance. Baseflat. Curium, Theater.
Understone AFifth layer ear oforchestrawest of vault.
North trench east of centerchoros, eighth layer28 April 1950, XII XII S.F. no. 2Tales, NB XII p. 93, p. 97

Photograph: negative showing lamp fragment, with scale and label "L1156"

Roll 27

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 1156Terracotta Lamp

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