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 42 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 42 of 64

Inscriptions from Palace 19 October - 2 Dec. 1948

Ins. 100. Piece of marble, smooth on both sides, 2 cm thick. Letters roughly incised with triangular groove, almost certainly from triangular shaped gouge. Letters .7 to .8 cm high. Top of row below just enough preserved to show existence. Top row of letter thus

Drawing: letters, likely Greek ALAL

Marble whitish with blue streaks. Found top layer, Room L, Palace, Kourion, 28.10.48, small find no. 6

Ins. 101 Piece of marble, .1 cm thick, roughly triangular in shape, .1 cm x .95 x .85. marble large crystals with lines running through it, back side all smooth; front side, below letters .1 cm, surface changes from smooth to rough. Letters neatly cut .3 cm high. Possible traces of letter before alpha. Letters thus

Drawing: letters, likely Greek ANI-

Found fifth layer, Room E, Palace, Kourion 23.11.48 … continues

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)

  • Ins. 100Inscription fragment (marble piece)
  • Ins. 101Inscription fragment (marble piece)

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