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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 78 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 78 of 150

St 848Marble Head, Female
PH: 0.14W: 0.111
Th: 0.121

Broken at neck; nose chipped & flattened. White marble weathered brown on surface.

Head of aphrodite (?) slightly tilted to her left. Hair waved & braided in a roll around face & tied by string or rope in back. Narrow oval face; no expression. F98-11 | P. 720: "Finds 8-15 incl. ... were found North of Room North of Doric Portico" | Apollo, Trench 9 A-E, North 18-21 May 5, 1947 ML IV, p. 713, # 9

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 848Marble Head, Female

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