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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 22, folder 3·Undated

Kourion Complex, Stone (St 1–St 304)

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

Scan 107 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 22, folder 3 (Kourion Complex, Stone (St 1–St 304)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 22, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 107 of 150

St 274HEAD OF YOUTHNear "ALTAR TWO", surfacePH 0.088

Battered head, most of chin and left cheek, left ear missing; surface dented & chipped; nose mostly gone.

Unbearded face, short hair bound by single fillet; hair rendered by wavy short, shallow incisions apparently radiating from crown of head. Margins margins of eye shows careful curve of upper & lower lids, so that the eye was somewhat sunk beneath the brow.

Apollo muse.

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

  • St 274HEAD OF YOUTH

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