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 75 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 75 of 150

Ex Raek NW 1 St 247 Head. in relief "Altar Two" E. Rack xi/1939 p. 176

Pres. H. 0.174 Pres. W. 0.105 T. 0.055

Complete, save chips, and much worn.

Soft limestone.

Face in relief; finished all around and cut off flat behind.

[photograph] IX.4 AV-66

Ovel face; heavy cupidsbow lips, slightly smiling; large flat nose; low cheeks; very large sunken eyes, upper lids (?) highly arched, pupils and irises indicated. Low forehead. Headdress arranged in four crescentshaped tiers over forehead, the fourth third of which apparently cuts over the lower two at the sides; some of the tiers may represent hair.

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 247Head in relief

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