Catalogue·PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 9·December 1948

Kourion Complex, Palace (Baths) Objects Dec. 1948

·

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

Scan 1 of catalogue PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 9 (Kourion Complex, Palace (Baths) Objects Dec. 1948), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 1 of 64

Stone Objects, Palace, Kourion, Oct. Dec. 1948

St. 600- Sand stone like stone, 16cm high, 10cm thick, 18cm long. Found Room T, second layer, above East West wall, Palace 13 November 1948, small find no. 2. Part of leg just above front part of foot and with part of heel, line of break running diagonally across foot. city Ankle bone, protrusion of this marked on outside of foot; on an inside, part broken away. Above heel and in back of anckle bone, there has been worn or cut away a part of original stone leaving a flat unarticulated surface. In addition on the outside at this level part has been broken away

St 601 marble, 10.5 cm high, max. dia. 6.1 cm., min. dia. appr. 4 cm. Hard white marble. Found third layer Room I, 27 Oct. 1948, small inner find no. 3 Lower part of a left arm of statue, (statue's left arm) the lower part of arm was bent at approximately right angles to upper. The piece suggests that the statue with which it went was a young boy.

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 (2)

  • St. 600Foot and leg fragment (statue)
  • St 601Lower part of a left arm of statue

Spotted a wrong reading? Write to us or use alexis@ancientcyprus.com