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 55 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 55 of 64

A 411. The only two original surfaces preserved are the front with the leaves and the straight bottom surface. This is presumably part of a moulding which was meant to be topped seen face to face, and not from below. Found Room K, second layer 28 October 1948 Small find no. 7.

A 412 Sandstone. upper part of moulding with leaves. No original surface preserved except for front Rectangular stem flanked by leaves and with leaves growing out from it. On top, as if cut away from front another stem seems to protrude It has been cut away on all sides for about 180°. Foo Room L find fill 28 Oct 1948 sml. fnd no. 2 Top leaves project out 4 cm See A 413

A 413 Sandstone. leaves part of moulding. Maximum distance across 10 cm. Top leaves protrude 4.5 cm. This piece is similar to A 412 only it has been broken off higher up. It shows that the grooves made by chisel on either side of rectangular stem spread, flaring out. Moreover A 413 is badly preserved. Room L, out fill 28 Oct 1948 sml find no. 1

A 414 Sandstone leaves, three together flanked on both sides presumably by other leaves.

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 (4)

  • A 411Moulding fragment
  • A 412Moulding fragment
  • A 413Moulding fragment
  • A 414Leaves fragment

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