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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 113 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 113 of 150

St 874

Seal Stone

Dim: 0.040 X 0.035 X 0.020

Complete solid rectangular, dark green stone; attachment loop at one end of top thru which a string-hole 0.005 in diam. borderd Crude, intaglios on all surfaces except top: a) man's face with high wig & long beard, Egyptian pharaoh? b) Priest with high pointed cap carving a long-handled axe,

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)

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