Catalogue·PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 15·1939–1948

Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (1 of 2)

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Scan 1 of catalogue PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 15 (Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (1 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 15, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 1 of 79

Diary p. 7

Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates

Excavations began Nov. 6, 1935, 8 A.M.

Finds Nov. 6

1. Inscribed frag. large terracotta water-jug found about 12 metres southwest and of west end of Trench 1. Inscription reads: See photos Film II, no. 25 & 26. Now in New York, Metrop.

2. Stone stele, inscribed on three sides, about 80 cm. southwest of A 7, Trench 1.

Inscriptions: front:

right side: [handwritten: ΚΑΛΩΣ ΥΠΑΓΕΙΣ] left side: [handwritten: ΚΑΛΩΣ ΕΡΧΗ] [handwritten: ἐρχεσθαι] was probably intended. [handwritten: ει = η]

3. Lower part of draped terracotta figure of a man leaning on right foot preserved from knees (?) down. Nov. 6 - [handwritten: T] K. Surface soil.

4. Coin. Found by shepherd near Sanct. of Apollo. Nov. 7. [handwritten: C 33]

[I 154 - [handwritten: pencilled]]

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ 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)

Inscribed fragment of large terracotta water-jug
Stone stele
Lower part of draped terracotta figure of a man leaning on right foot
C 33Coin

Also mentionedI 154

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