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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 20, folder 3·Undated

Kourion Complex, Metal (M584–M721)

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

Scan 52 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 20, folder 3 (Kourion Complex, Metal (M584–M721)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 20, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 52 of 150

M630

St Gold and Silver

9.2 cm. long. Sphere of gold on silver pin.

Pin preserved almost entirely. On one end top

Small gold ball, and below sphere, piece of

wire to prevent it, falling off. Sphere 1.3cm

in diameter. Sher Sphere divided horizontally

into hemispheres, by two bands of small wire.

The two hemispheres decorated in almost identical

manner. three large Four circles one with four five circles

circles inside, and one in each quadrant, and

one in center. The four circles contained, greenish

stones which were probably and are now lower

than bluish stone in center. In the triangles

M630

Roll. 35

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

  • M630Pin with gold sphere

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