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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 66 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 66 of 150

St 420

film 192, 18 A

FOREPART OF LION

Apollo, Trench 9, Z-H, No. 28 - 30, in earth of 1st stratum; ref. p. 304, St 73

Max dim. 0.254

Legs, hindquarters & r.h. side of body & head gone; battered. Mouth open, teeth seen, indicated. Small ears, within slightly raised mane. Limestone.

May go with St 421, but probably broken from a relief.

Apollo muse.

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 420FOREPART OF LION

Also mentionedSt 421, St 73

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