Catalogue·PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 8·1939–1948

Kourion Complex, Basilica and Stadium Objects

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

Scan 8 of catalogue PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 8 (Kourion Complex, Basilica and Stadium Objects), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 8 of 17

Corinthian capital - white marble Bottom surface roughly picked top surface an ground - smooth fracture, approximately through center - break beyond boss on r., in front of it on l.

H. 0.58m. W. at abacus 0.675 D. of column ca 0.37m.

Objects from Basilica in Marble Pile

1 Cor. capital practically complete Several small frags. of Cor. caps. badly battered (best frgs. sorted out and placed on wall for taking down) le of poros sculptures great many frgs. of bases - undecorated or 6 column shafts & frgs pieces of grayish marble with large crystals - mouldings - doesn't seem to belong to our tables pieces of dark gray stone fluted few plain slabs o frgs. of altar tables or balustrade panels

(Notes from ? 1940 by S. Anderson. Most of the items described are [undoubtedly] still in the marble pile 25/VIII/41)

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

  • Corinthian capital

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