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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 86 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 86 of 150

St 854 frag'y Marble Statue, Hermes(?)

Est. H: 0.90

PH. head & torso ca. 0.38 PH. right leg often. 0.36 H. base 0.032

Inscribed pedestal I 126 (Mitford # 2nd) thought to belong to it

Frags preserve head, upper torso, right leg, left shin, feet & base of nude male statue, possibly Hermes.

Good marble, (in fresh breaks - Mr. Hill says marble finer grained than Parian.)

Head: flattened rough - picked on top. Hair parted in center & pulled ^ in piece of lead in back at back.

F98-1, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 Roll 143 A, 1, 2-16, 12-16?

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

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Recorded

  • St 854Marble Statue, Hermes(?) · probably Kourion Complex (city site and Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates)

Also mentionedI 126

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