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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 73 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 73 of 150

St 424

hawk or eagle limestone

bird with spread wings carved in relief as hanging by its throat from just below hawk's beak

hawk's beak broken off, also feet and t: tip of tail, with base?

PH 0.136 W 0.076

[photograph] A3131

Film Vg 2 1:8

[photograph] A3030

Film Vg 2

Drawing: profile of bird

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 424hawk or eagle

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