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 44 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 44 of 150

St 219 Male Head

"Altar Two" E. Rack XI/1939

SW 1 p. 171

IX, 15

Pres. H. 0.121 Max. W. 0.09.

Broken off at neck; chin and back of head chipped. Soft limestone.

Broad Buddha-like face, long slightly smiling mouth, broad Oriental cheeks; large flat nose; large almond-shaped eyes; bulging eye-balls, no lids indicated; low flat forehead. Hair done up in crescent over forehead, pulled up, over ears, and \turned up under wreath down over nape. ^hanging/ Above, wreath of leaves. Hair indicated below wreath, \over forehead by (over)

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 219Male Head

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