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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 137 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 137 of 150

St 891 Steatite amulet

Dim: 0.046 X 0.031 Th: 0.007

Complete, + in fairly good condition. Very light turquoise steatite.

slab Roughly rectangular, with rounded corners. Suspension hole 0.003 in diam. off center near top edge.

Side a: Checker board pattern of round holes & incised (over)

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 891Steatite amulet

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