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 34 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 34 of 79

Diary page 337 436. Complete jug 6.5 x 5 cm. Handle from belly to P 1169 rim, flat base, crude reddish brown clay. Trench 9 Delta-Epsilon north 30-32 lying on 2nd stratum. Mar. 26. 437. Terracotta face of man. wheel made. Crude T 1794 brick coloured clay. 8x 4 cm. Trench 9 K-Lambda north 24-26 lying on 2nd stratum. Mar. 25. 438. Terracotta statuette. wheel-made 11.5 x 6 cm. T 1568 crude clay. Hollow. Arms & head missing. Black & red bands run round belly. Garment [blank space] by cross hatching lines on chest. Much like 395. Street 1 N-Xi, east 0-2 in surface soil. Apr. 6. Page 341 439. Neck & mouth of jug. 4 x 3 cm. fairly good clay - black bands running round neck. Wide Sh 1127 red band round top of neck and under projecting lip - red bands running round lip and in mouth. Trench 9 B-Gamma north 26-28 lying on 2nd stratum. April 13. 440. Fragment of terracotta, traces of red paint on leaves and of brown paint on band T 1578 Street 1 I-K east 8-10 lying on 2nd stratum. April 15. 441. Terracotta head of man 5.2x 3.8 cm. Brown clay, T 1571 eyebrows and beard painted in black. Wheelmade - perforations for wheel. Street 1, I-K east 8-10 lying on 2nd stratum. April 15.

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 (6)

  • P 1169Complete jug
  • T 1794Terracotta face of man
  • T 1568Terracotta statuette
  • Sh 1127Neck & mouth of jug
  • T 1578Fragment of terracotta
  • T 1571Terracotta head of man

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