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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 5 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 5 of 64

Ar 500 Ston.

St 609 Hard stone polished surface, bell shaped Maximum dimensions 5cm high, 4.5 x 3.5 cm. lower corner side per corner piece chipped off. All corners very much rounded. Hole in top mouth of which 8cm wide; 1.3cm deep Mycenean?

St. 610 Hard stone polished. Underside flat, upper, more rounded. Pointed. Broken off. Neolithic? Upper surface Room N

611 St. 610 Marble fr. of basin polished inside and out. Inside diameter about 16 cm. Thickness on rim about .8cm. Becoming thicker below. Lug on side. Projecting 1.5cm.; 1cm thick; 4cm wide. Marble white. Room E, SW portion 5th layer. 25 Nov. 1948 Small find no. 9

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

Objects named on this page

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 (3)

  • St 609bell shaped object
  • St 610Hard stone polished. Underside flat, upper, more rounded. Po
  • St 611Marble fragment of basin

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