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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 36 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 36 of 79

Diary Page 355 458. Terracotta fragment<s>x</s> wheel made - torso T 1569 8.5 x 9 . Crude red clay - traces painted in black round shoulders. Street 1 I-K east 6-8 lying on 2nd stratum. April 15. 459. Terracotta standing figure - wheelmade - T 1584 base & head missing - also left arm & right forearm - crude reddish clay - hem of robe painted in black. 14.5 x 6 cm. Street 1 I-K east 6-8 lying on 2nd stratum. May 4. Page 357 460. Terracotta of bull - head & neck - T 2024 wheel-made 7 x 8 roughly. Crude light brown clay - traces of red paint behind left horn. Trench 9 A-80-b north 31.28 lying on 3rd stratum. April 30. 461. Piece of lead 12.6 mm. M 359 Trench 9 A-<s>1xx</s>140-b north 30-32, lying on 2nd stratum. April 30. 462. Piece of alabaster. Found in Cave 1. St 431 463. Broken jug,neck missing 7 x 5 cm. Flat P 831 base - handle missing. Crude reddish brown clay. Street 1 N-190-Xi lying on 3rd stratum. Apr 30 464. Terracotta torso - wheel-made - head, <s>xxxx</s> T 1566 arms & base missing, <s>8</s>9x5.9 cm. Crude, light brown clay. 2 red & 1 black parallel bands running round belly - traces painted round shoulders. Street 1, K-Lambda east 6-8 lying on 2nd stratum. May 4. 465. Terracotta head - wheelmade - 6.5 x 4 cm. Crude T 1563 light brown clay. Eyes, brows, ears & nose painted in black. Covered(?) head painted red. Perforated for wheel. Street 1, K-Lambda east 6-8 <s>xxx</s> in surface soil. April 14. 466. Handle of pot 13.3 cm. Crude grayish clay Sh 1126 painted. Street 1 K-Lambda east 4-6 lying on 2nd stratum. p.359 467. Terracotta torso - head, <s>xxxx</s> arms, & legs T 1565 missing. 8.5 x 7.5 cm. Crude, grey clay - traces painted in black over shoulders & back. Paint aplashed over breast. Torso probably that of rider. Street 1, K-Lambda east 4-6 lying on 2nd stratum. 468. Frag. of pot, crude red clay. Trench 9 Delta-E P 1901 in surface soil. Mar. 12 469. Small broken piece of bronze. M 379 Trench 9 A-100-b north 31.5 on stone lying on top of 3rd stratum. April 30.

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)

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Recorded (12)

  • 458Terracotta fragment wheel made - torso
  • 459Terracotta standing figure - wheelmade - base & head missing - also left arm & right forearm
  • 460Terracotta of bull - head & neck - wheel-made
  • 461Piece of lead
  • 462Piece of alabaster
  • 463Broken jug, neck missing - flat base - handle missing
  • 464Terracotta torso - wheel-made - head, arms & base missing
  • 465Terracotta head - wheelmade
  • 466Handle of pot
  • 467Terracotta torso - head, arms, & legs missing
  • 468Frag. of pot
  • 469Small broken piece of bronze

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