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 48 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 48 of 64

A 406. Marble, whitish, 2 cm thick, thinning on top to 1.5 cm. Roughly rectangular, 6 x 15 cm. Four Three sides broken off. Fourth cut straightly but worn away. On back 3 cm from edge a line beyond which marble white with traces of cement. On front, 3 cm from edge a groove one cm cut wide .3 cm deep. Beyond this groove traces of cement, where are the traces of cement, a groove 1.5 cm wide, .3 cm deep. The edge of this groove along straight edge has been chipped away Room B, above plaster. 4 Nov. 1948. Small find no.3

A 407 Marble bluish with streaks 2.4 cm thick. Roughly triangular in shape 5 x 5.5 x 6 cm. Both surfaces smooth but back had plastered cement. All sides broken. Incised lines two circular.

A 408 Fr Marble grayish 1.7 cm thick. Two long sides roughly chords of circle 28 cm in diameter all sides broken. Under surface smoother with traces of cement; a series of dot depressed dots along two sides. Middle hollowed out, to depth of about .4 cm: one side goes down abruptly, the other gradually On front surface, two engraved chords, either side on either side of which lines diagonal, parts of leave or tree

Margin right: and plaster

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 (3)

  • A 406Marble fragment
  • A 407Marble fragment
  • A 408Marble fragment

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