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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 58 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 58 of 150

St 230

HORSE AND RIDER

Frag. of horse's neck "Altar Two"?

Cab. Dr. 8

x1/1939

p.173

Photograph

Ix, 22 (l.)

Gtest diam. of lower break .043

pH as joined 0.101

Neck and upper head of horse, nose broken away.

Soft limestone.

Sharp mane, ears and small pointed crest indicated; head turned downwards.

Joined to horse with Rider: Missing are upper body of rider, forelegs & most of hind legs & tail of horse, columnar supports and base.

Rider seated on plain flat saddle - cloth, holds reins shown in relief against horse's neck, fingers indicated.

Stamp: FLOOR

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 230HORSE AND RIDER

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