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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 73 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 73 of 164

L 1489Terracotta Lamp.Type XXVIII.

max. dim: 0.082

About 3/4 of lamp. Part of rim + nozzle missing — mended.

Buff clay

Vine & grape design on rim set off from

discus by a circle of parallel short

lines. Lug handle-broken printed 2 (feet yours) (hands)

filling holes on discus. Man on discus with

pole over his shoulder. Suspended on his right side perhaps a crater while from pole on left

side is an amphora. Incised greek letters

around the discus. On the base is

inscribed IYWl X WNY (?)

W-K1-R

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 1489Terracotta Lamp

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