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 46 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 46 of 64

A404. Marble, grayish, 1.7 cm thick, rectangular 5 x 15 to 17. Two sides broken. One end cut square; other side rounded. Hole .5 cm in diameter, 4 cm from end. Center nearer surface without lines. 1.5 cm to about 2 cm from rounded edge, roughening of surface on side with lines, this roughening amounts to a wearing away. Uncired lines perhaps branches continue into this roughened area. Room N first layer 3 November 1948. Small find no. 3

/ A405. Marble, white, 1.7 cm thick rectangular 12 x 7 cm maximum dimensions. Three sides broken. Other side bevelled back slightly. Back surface covered with cement. About 4.2 cm from straight edge, a hollow, .6 to .7 cm wide 2 cm to .3 cm deep. About 6 cm from straight edge another larger hollow but this has been cut out broken off. About in middle of 1.7 cm thickness and on bevelled side a hole .5 cm in diameter which is stopped up by what appears as a metal object This hole extends for about 2.5 cm where another hole from the surface without cement comes to meet opens into it. This hole is about .4 cm in diameter Room E first layer third portion, 11 November 1948, Small find no. 10

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)

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Recorded (2)

  • A404grayish, rectangular. Two sides broken. One end cut square;
  • A405 (number uncertain)white, rectangular. Three sides broken. Other side bevelled number uncertain

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