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 50 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 50 of 64

A 408, Found in passage leading into Room wall under blocking off cellar to outside to West Room O. 23 October 1948.

A 409 Marble whitish, 2 cm. thick, roughly rectangular, on front, 13.5 cm x 8 cm, under surface approx. 12 cm x 7 cm. corner piece, upper left or lower right. Outer edges bevelled inner broken. On bottom under surface plaster; on upper, two lines of depressed moulding. On one side, this moulding begins 2.8 cm from edge on other side 2.5 cm from edge. This outer line about 1 cm wide and deeper on side 2.5 cm from edge. Average between two lines of depressed moulding .2 to .4 cm in width Flatter 5 to .6 cm on side with deeper groove. The inner groove is about 1 cm wide. Both these grooves extend beyond their their meeting with the groove coming from right angles. Found SE corner of Room N in damen plaster 12 November 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)

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Recorded (2)

  • A 408 (number uncertain)Found in passage leading into ~~Room wall under~~ blocking onumber uncertain
  • A 409corner piece

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