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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 22, folder 4·Undated

Kourion Complex, Stone (St 305–St 615)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 40 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 22, folder 4 (Kourion Complex, Stone (St 305–St 615)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 22, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 40 of 150

St 406 AV-30

Film VC 2, 36(?) (VG 1, 27 A, per)

BEARDLESS HEAD Apollo: Strct 1, A-185-M, E. 4.60 in Earth of 1st stratum, MCF. F. 347

PH 0.09

Head and part of neck only.

Apparently bareheaded, plain mass of hair curving over forehead falling straight down behind ears in Egyptian wig fashion. Sharp in-cutting around eyeballs. Flat back.

Limestone; faint traces red on lips, & hair (?);

Archaic Precinct

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 406BEARDLESS HEAD

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