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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 24 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 24 of 164

Type XXVIII

L 1440Terracotta Lamp
diam. 0.067; H. 0.024

Complete Buff clay. Lug handle, on rim - incised laurel leaves or herring-bone pattern. Between the rim & discus - incised dots. 2 holes in central part of discus - on either side a woman (?) standing. Below holes an altar (?); Apollo 3 June 1950 S.E. Bldg Rm 4 # 1161 MCF XI Q 2086

Margin left: W-142-L

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)

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 1440Terracotta Lamp

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