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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 144 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 144 of 150

St 299

CHARIOT - HORSES

Near "Altar Two", surface

L.g horses 0.177

Two horses, probably horses A 2; legs of horse 1, hindquarters, nose & legs of horse 2 missing.

Manes grooved behind, bridles have triple side-pieces, bands under forequarters, as St 250. On chests, below, V-shaped snap with plain pendant, then 2 straps around neck & 1 thin chin-strap. Pair of yoke-pole preserved between them.

Limestone. FLOOR

Stamp: Votive deposit

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 299 (number uncertain)CHARIOT - HORSESnumber uncertain

Also mentionedSt 250

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