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 20 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 20 of 79

Diary page 191 213. Trench 1. Theta-160-iota south 5.70 C 139 lying on second stratum on soil (dirt floor?) 4th or 5th cent. A.D. 214. Trench 1 Theta-145-iota south 4.75 lying C 140 on second stratum. Ptol. X. 215. Bronze blade of dagger. 16.2 x 2.5 cm. M 81 with pin for missing handle and perforated at handle end. Trench 9 a-5-b north 21.47 60 cm. under surface lying on second stratum. See photo Film 12, no. 36 (opposite page) March 23. 216. Bronze handle for vase in two pieces roughly M 105 11.6 x 6.5. Trench 9 A-120-a (b?) north 21.95 40 cm. under surface lying on second stratum. See photo p. 190 Film 12 no. 55 March 23. 217. Coin. Trench 9 I-145-K north 17.20 lying on C 141 second stratum on soil (floor?). Mar. 23. Illeg. R. Imperial. Page 200 218. Coin. Trench 9 B*185* bega-185-gamma north 20.30 lying on second stratum on C 1065 dirt (floor?). March 24. 219. Coin. Found in Temple B dump Mar. 23. C 142 Constantine the Great 324-2326. 220. Bronze ring diameter 12.5 cm. Trench 9 M I-K north 30-32 on stone pavement under surface M 116 soil. Impression of ring shows in stone there was a bronze socket for the ring which still shows. Same as 510. 221. Coin. Trench 1 iota-180-kappa south 8.46 lying C 143 on second stratum. March 25. Alexander, Salamis 222. Coin. Trench 1 iota-115-k south 13.90 lying on C 144 second stratum. Illeg. Page 202 223. Coin. Trench 1 iota-120-k south 8.90 lying C 145 directly on second stratum. March 25 224. Ptol. I Sv. #163 224. Coin. W. of W. Bldg. theta-185-iota west 6.25 C 146 lying on second stratum. Mar. 25. Time of Cleopatra VII. Sv no. 1875. 225. Coin. Trench 9 Delta-170-E north 30.10 in surface soil Mar. 25. Faustina Augusta 147-174 A.D. Fecund Augustae. Missing Nov. 29 '51. 226. West of S. Bldg. Gamma-315-Delta west 8.25 lying C 147 on second stratum. Page 204 227. Coin. West of S. Bldg. Delta-90-Epsilon C 148 west 8.92 in surface soil. Mar. 26. Illeg. 228. xxx Trench 9 Delta 60-E north 29.40 in M 115 b surface soil not far from stone flag Mar. 26. Bronze medallion, gold plated. 192 A.D. 229. Coin. Trench 9 Delta-20-Epsilon north 9.20 C 1067 in surface soil. Mar. 26. Caracalla. 230. Coin. Trench 9 Delta-65-E north 29.40 in C 1068 surface soil. Mar. 26. Antoninus Pius after 161.

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 (17)

  • C 139Coin
  • C 140Coin
  • M 81Bronze blade of dagger
  • M 105Bronze handle for vase
  • C 141Coin
  • C 1065Coin
  • C 142Coin
  • M 116Bronze ring
  • C 143Coin
  • C 144Coin
  • C 145Coin
  • C 146Coin
  • C 147Coin
  • C 148Coin
  • M 115 bBronze medallion, gold plated
  • C 1067Coin
  • C 1068Coin

Also mentionedSH133, SH134, P744

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