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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 21, folder 8·Undated

Kourion Complex, Sherd (Sh 1001–1264)

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

Scan 19 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 21, folder 8 (Kourion Complex, Sherd (Sh 1001–1264)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 21, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 19 of 141

Sh 1034Frag. of Neck ofCoarse PotCab. Dr. 2x/1939"Altar Two"

Section ? max. dim. 0.10; T. 0.014

Local red clay; core fired black; no paint.Frag. shows two sections divided by broadraised band with rounded edges. The lowersection begins to round out into the shoulder.Upon it, a little below the band, is a horizon-tal row of small incised circles (made withreed ?). On the upper edge of the band is arow of short incised parallel lines, at theleft oblique, at the right (under the design)vertical. On the upper section in the centera tree is incised; it consits of a single verti-cal line indicating the trunk, toward the topof which curving lines (branches) project toright and left. To the right of this tree,sketch of a building or wall is incised; itis broken off at the right. This structureconsists of a long horizontal rectangle dividedlengthwise into two bands, the lower furtherdivided into squares, the upper marked by X's.Photo over

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)

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Recorded

  • Sh 1034Frag. of Neck of Coarse Pot

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