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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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 17 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 17 of 79

Diary page 163

Pots whole or in part removed from Apollo April 22, '36:

I. Trench 7 K-Lambda east 0-2 on floor below surface soil. See photo p. 135 no. 17 (film 7). 1. Miscellaneous sherds 2. Complete pot roughly 23x23 South Building Room 2 lying on third stratum removed April 22, '36. 3. Bronze jug roughly 24x15 cm E-160-Z & M 139 west of east peristyle(?) 164 cm. See photos p. 161 film 10, no. 12 Inscribed dedication to Apollo Hylates & Apollo Caesar. 4. Sherds of pot Theta-20-Iota west of east stylobate 90 cm. lying on third stratum. 5. Sherds of pot Theta-90-I west of east P 1077 stylobate 160 cm. 6. Sherds of pot Theta-150-Iota west of east stylobate 20 cm. lying on 3rd stratum. 2 packages. 7. Sherds of pot (photo p. 167 no. 14) extreme southwest corner of Room 2 in second stratum. 8. Sherds large water jar. See photo p. 161 No. 16. 1 metre from threshold & 1 metre roughly from east stylobate lying on third stratum.

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Room 2 South Building on floor lying on top third stratum were following finds: Pots 3 Finds 173 Stones & Marbles (p. 139) 7

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29. West Building Room 1 2nd stratum lying on third ___ floor ______ 53 cm north of south wall & 40 cm east of west wall. P 1079 March 1937 10. Complete pot roughly 3.5x4 cm. low wide neck ______ base projecting rim - crude ware Trench 9 a-b north 20-22 in surface soil. Mar. 23. Archaic. Duplicates 435 : P 828(?) 11. Complete pot 4.5 x 6.5 cm. roughly. upright handle, flat bottom. Crude ware. Archaic? ?Duplicates find 436 : P 1169? Trench 9 Delta-E north 30-32 lying on second stratum. [illegible] Mar. 26. Complete pots hereafter included among finds.

[handwritten: Rm.3 S.Bldg.?] [handwritten: x pockets & peristyle? really meaning stylobate? or Tachobate?] [handwritten: Rm 3 south?]

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)

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)

  • M 139Bronze jug
  • P 1077Sherds of pot
  • P 1079Pot

Also mentionedSh 1268, P 1169? (number uncertain)

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