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 49 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 49 of 150

NE 1 p. 172 Ex pos it St 223 Hare and Hounds "Altar Two Cab. Dr. 8 xi/1939 [photograph] IX.18 (above)

Pres. H. 0.046 Pres. L. 0.119

Two fragments, joined, pres. part of basis, hare, forepart of hunting-dog and forelegs of a second.

Soft limestone.

Group rests on flat basis, of which front r. corner only pres.; in corner, small hare, facing, crouched to ground, ears flat against back; its left haunch is seized in the mouth of a hunting-dog of greyhound type, which crouches low on its forelegs, ears against head. The dogs body is long and slender; it wears a collar; its teeth are indicated.

On the right haunch of the hare are marks of join with second hound, whose forelegs also appear on the basis.

Votive Deposit (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

  • St 223Group of hare and hounds (fragment)

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