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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 62 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 62 of 150

St 417

AV-137

VOTIVE DEER

Body: Apollo, Street 1, N. 110. E. E. 6.05 on top of end stratum, M.F. St. 77 Head: "Altar Two", near-surface

PH 0.234

Legs, right hindquarter, horns, ears, missing.

Long body, long neck, held curving back. Slight modelling of head & muzzle. Left foreleg was advanced. Traces of rings at bases of broken horns (?); 6. weathered to Limestone (Head has weathered to different color from body).

FLOOR

Margin right: 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 417Votive deer

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