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

Kourion Complex, Palace (Baths) Objects Dec. 1948

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

Scan 21 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 21 of 64

L 531 Fr. of lamp. Room O 5th layer in soft part 4.11.48.

L 532 Fr. Handle Clay light brown. Handle solid Definite rearward protrusion. Rim seems undecorated A Hole for oil off center (Room E 5 Nov. 1948 Small find no. 5 (ovular shape. Type XXVIII

L 533 Fr. Handle Clay light brown. Pierced from both sides but hole not clean through. Handle made in two parts, Upper thinner, Both without grooves. Type XXVIII XXVII Fr. Rim Clay brown. Rim broad Two ovular arches over ovular objects against redge separating Rim from discus. Discus would seem to be without decoration. Circular shape Type XXVII Fr. just below rim. Circular traces of fine clay light brown Room O fifth layer along East wall Small find no. 1 5 Nov. 1948

L 534 Fr. Rim Clay brown. Ovules. Discus appears to be plain. circular shape Type XXVII Room M 4th layer 5 Nov. 1948

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 (4)

  • L 531Lamp fragment
  • L 532Lamp handle fragment
  • L 533Lamp handle and rim fragments
  • L 534Lamp rim fragment

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