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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 31 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 31 of 79

Diary page 296 390. Street 1 A-90-B east 6.70 in surface soil. C ___ Gr. or Cyp. 391. Cylinder seal - stone 2.5 cm. x 8 cm. S 53 Trench 9 B-80-Gamma north 24.60 inside second stratum. Apr. 20. 392. Found by man digging hole for post. April 20. Constantine I 306-337? C ___ 393. Two fragments terracotta mask of man. Brown clay with traces of red paint - eyebrows indicated without eyes. T 2022 See film 15 (20 & 21) South Building Room 5 Stoa in surface fill. 394. Fine Attic black-glazed sherd 12 x 12.5 x 3.7 cm P 1058 roughly. Found east of Sanctuary on surface.

Page 303 395. Terracotta wheel-made. 26.4 x 8.5 cm. Standing T 1557 figure of man with left arm raised upright, right arm missing. Wide parallel bands around base, belly and crown of head. Traces painted round his shoulder. eyes, beard, mustache painted: Hollow within body. Gray clay with traces of brownish red slip. 396. Arrowhead, bronze, 6 cm. leaf shaped. M 79 Street 1, N-42-Xi east 10.57 lying on 3rd stratum. April 22, '37. 397. Bronze arrowhead 9 cm. leaf shape. M 80 Street 1 N-92-Xi east 11.20 lying on third stratum. April 21.

Page 306 398. Bronze arrow head, leaf shape. 11 cm. M 78 Street 1 N-40-Xi east 10.57 lying on 3rd stratum. April 22. 399. Bronze leaf shape arrow head. 6.4. M 77 Street 1 N-40-Xi east 10.55 lying on 3rd stratum. April 22. 400. Bronze fibula 7 cm. (diam of curve) Geometric M 59 Trench 9 Lambda-Mu south 14-16 on surface. Apr 2. 401. Broken pieces bronze i iron in package. ___ Trench 9 Gamma-Delta north 28-30 in surface soil. April 3. 402. Terracotta horse's head. Street 1 M-N T 1587 east 2-4 lying on 2nd stratum. April 8. 403. Terracotta animal. 14.5 x 9 - legs missing. T 2023 Trench 9 Delta-Epsilon north 28-30 in surface soil. Mar. 27.

Page 312 408. Coin. Street 1 Kappa-Lambda east 8.76 lying C 1052 on 3rd stratum. See Film 17, no 15, 17 & cross ^ section p. 308. 409. Bronze object 4 x 2 dm. Trench 9 K-Lambda north M 58 26-28 in second stratum. April 17 410. Silver ring. Trench 9 B-195-Gamma north 28-30 M 94 in second stratum (Diary April 21). 411. Coin. Street 1 Delta-90-Epsilon east 0-2 in C 1053 surface soil. April 17.

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 (18)

  • 390Object
  • 391Cylinder seal
  • 392 (number uncertain)Coinnumber uncertain
  • 393Terracotta mask
  • 394Sherd
  • 395Standing figure of man
  • 396Arrowhead
  • 397Arrowhead
  • 398Arrow head
  • 399Arrow head
  • 400Fibula
  • 401Broken pieces bronze i iron in package
  • 402Terracotta horse's head
  • 403Terracotta animal
  • 408Coin
  • 409Bronze object
  • 410Silver ring
  • 411Coin

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