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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 126 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 126 of 150

St 882Stone Chariot Frag
PH: 0.14W: 0.11

Frag preserves most of chariot & legs of charioteers. Limestone.

Body of chariot similarly shaped to a quarter of a circle; the standing platform divided into 2 halves, in each stands a draped driver. The hand of one still can be seen on the left side, the sides of the wagon project at the front & once joined the hitching pole,

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

Objects named on this pageProbably Kourion 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 882 (number uncertain)Stone Chariot Fragnumber uncertain

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