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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 81 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 81 of 150

St 851

Stone Head, Male

H: 0.078 Th: 0.068 W: 0.058

Broken at neck, nose, head, & right side of face chipped. Scared. Soft white chalky stone weathered to a dark brown on surface.

Archaic style: hair, vertical ridges radiating from center of cranium to narrow fillet which separates fluffy hair around temples from ridges. Bulging Δ eyes; archaic smile. Triangular face; ears flat.

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 851Stone Head, Male

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