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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 6·Undated

Kourion Complex, Mitford Cards

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

Scan 8 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 6 (Kourion Complex, Mitford Cards), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 19, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 8 of 110

card 1 30 a-d | a I 51 b I 54 & I 73 c I 52 d I 68 "Amhoritic decree of the mid-third century B.C."

a.I 51

1.Old reference: Apollo, Trench 9, B-T North 30-32 in surface soil. p. 179 # 12, p. 235 # 14

2.New grid reference: K 3-4, 9 ⇒ 7-8

3.New Area or Bldg. ref.: Sanctuary of Apollo, Archaic Precinct, surface soil, March 26, 1937

b.I 54

1.Old reference: Apollo, Trench 9, B-T North 30-32 in surface soil. p. 236 # 17, March 26, 1937

2.New grid reference: K 3-4, 8 7-8

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 (2)

  • I 51 (number uncertain)Greek inscriptionnumber uncertain
  • I 54Greek Inscription

Also mentionedI 73, I 52, I 68

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