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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 40 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 40 of 150

St 216 Chariot "Altar Two" Cab.Dr.8 xi/1939 NE 1 p. 170

[photograph] IX, 7 (above)

Pres. H. 0.113

FLOOR

Preserves chariot, w. lower bodies of driver and passenger; parts of sides, all of yokes, wheels and front basis w. horses missing. Soft limestone. Group stood on continuous basis. Chariot rests on heavy axle w. holes bored to take wheels. Body of char. w. high front and side-walls w. rear upper corners rising in point; back open; driver upper corners rising in point; back open; driver stands leaning against r. side, wears long skirt; passenger stands against 1. front-wall, skirt shorter. Attachment rising from center of front-wall broken away, possibly biga-pole. Aso trace of attachment on front of chariot.

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 216 (number uncertain)Chariotnumber uncertain

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