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 76 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 76 of 150

The back appears to have been deliberately sliced off in antiquity; either the head was made so, or the foresliced from a composite figure.

Headdress, cf. SCE, Kition 356, Pl. IX, Style II A. Style of ears also resemble III A. latter part of Cypro-Archaic II? Ca. 500?

S.C.E. III p. 384; "the heads are not sculptures all round; a break on the back of them indicates that they were origin[illegible] sculptures as relief on plaques." Style VII -225-150?.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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