Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 20, folder 1·Undated

Kourion Complex, Metal (M128–M434)

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

Scan 136 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 20, folder 1 (Kourion Complex, Metal (M128–M434)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 20, folder 1, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 136 of 150

hold handle in place now. Lid holes. Part of sides eaten away or bent out of shape. Chain which held lid lost. large round body. The bottom is beaten hollow so that the pot as a whole rests only on a narrow ridge. The round body levels on top to a horizontal stretch of 1.5 cm. Too Upon this, superimposed a truncated cone which leads to ridge which has helps holds handle in place. Ontop of ridge, inward slanting part which stops whose top is mouth. Over surface, marks of hammer visible, particularly in upper truncated cone part. Handle all in one piece, when affixed to pot has Heart shaped bottom affix. To this affix, attached, handle proper. Handle curves out and then in again toward so truncated. Where begins to turn in, be formed into three branches. Two lower, join with collar around neck below mouth. These two lower branches appear to end, on bump oneither. This collar was fits over ridge in truncated cone and is held in place by two nails which went through collar. Under two nail-holes, lugs which extend downward with orular end., SEE Card II

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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Recorded

  • Bronze vessel with handle and collar (cauldron/jug fragment)

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