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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 111 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 111 of 150

St 873

Steatite cylinder seal

L: 0.039

D: 0.023

Complete; light grey to dark green steatite.

a smaller disc on top which is pierced diametrically for suspension plus one hole in center.

On cylinder, intaglio, from left to right: 2 helmeted warriors facing each other, a rearing horse facing right, a helmeted warrior holding another rearing

Margin left: man fighting lion,

Margin left: two men facing

Margin left: seated griffin

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 873Steatite cylinder seal

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