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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 72 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 72 of 164

L 1488Terracotta LampType XXII
Diam.: 0.06H. 0.02

Part of nozzle & base missing. Buff clay. Volutes on nozzle. No handle. Narrow rim set off from discus by 2 deep & one shallow groove. On discus a dove sitting on a branch with a pomegranate(?). No trace of glaze.

Apollo 15 May 1948 Street # 4 243 Mc F V p. 969

W-KI-R

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 1488Terracotta Lamp

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