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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 5·Undated

Kourion Complex, Lamp (L1416–L1580)

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

Scan 142 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 5 (Kourion Complex, Lamp (L1416–L1580)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 142 of 164

L 1557Terracotta LampType XXVIII
H. 0.025D. 0.058

Complete.

Local buff clay. Lug handle. Pseudo vine pattern on spine - Plus some other designs near the nozzle. Around the edge of discus a band of short parallel lines. 3 filling holes, ion discus. Design is that of a crudely made man with a pole over his shoulders. From pole are suspended two vases. Also some writing around edge of discus Man has his head at the nozzle

W-K1-L

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 1557Terracotta Lamp

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