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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 4·Undated

Ayios Ermoyenis, Lamp (L)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 19 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 4 (Ayios Ermoyenis, Lamp (L)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 23, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 19 of 51

Hellenistic wheel-made lamp

L 372

Film vq 38.29

1:5

Film vq 38.30

1:5

body with sharp angle higher than the middle, semi-pierced knob at the left side, and apparently raised base; full depression round the wick-hole; no handle

buff clay with dark bits; rather thin matt paint, mottled and shaded red to black

mended from 6 pieces; part missing includes most of under side and end of nozzle

Like Broneer Type IX except for depression round wick-hole, for which see Type XIII. Date probably latter 3rd BC ?

[margin right: PH 0.027 diam. 0.066]

St Hermogenes 1941 Trench 43/75, top earth of dromos(?) / fill

VG p.110

group 5 HAT group C. p. 266 Buhl [illegible] B 52 cm. 2

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

Objects named on this pageAyios Ermoyenis (St Hermogenes)

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

  • L 372Lamp

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