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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 22, folder 6·Undated

Kourion Complex, Stone (St 768–901)

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

Scan 102 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 22, folder 6 (Kourion Complex, Stone (St 768–901)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 22, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 102 of 150

St 865 Amethyst scarab H: 0.0085 L: 0.017 W: 0.013

Complete. Smoky violet color with impurities.

Fine delineations portraying beetle. On bottom, intaglio: 2 cows lions attacking a deer. Pierced longitudinally. apollo street I St. Theou, metal box 1 0-60-II west 9.35 on strat. 2 debris May 10, 1948 met V, p. 951, # 198

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 865Amethyst scarab

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