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 37 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 37 of 79

Diary page 365 470. Terracotta head - wheelmade - 6 x 4.8 cm. T 1581 broken at neck & crown. Crude pink clay - yellow slip? Eyes, mouth & beard painted in black - also forehead & back of head. Street 1 K-Lambda east 8.10 lying on 2nd stratum. April 15. 471. Terracotta head 6 x 3 cm. roughly. Crude T 1580 light brown clay. Eyes & beard painted in black - ears & conical crown in red - back of head black. Street 1 Theta-Iota east 6-8 lying on 2nd stratum. 472. Sherd of Corinthian pot - reddish clay - brown P 1001? slip. Part of neck & right buttock of hoxrse painted in red & black with incised detail. 6.7 x 4 cm. roughly. April 15. Note: Vourva ware, Attic.

Page 366 473. Terracotta foot with shoe. Crude clay T 1586 b - painted red, wheelmade. Street 1 I-Kappa east 4-6 in surface soil. April 15. 474. Terracotta mouth & chin of man. Wheelmade T 1560 Reddish crude clay - mustache & beard painted in black. Street 1 I-K east 4-6 in surface soil. 475. Teracotta head. West of Temple B Gamma-Delta T 2026 West 6-8 lying on 2nd stratum. May 6.

Page 367 476. Bronze object 8.5 cm. West of Temple B _____ Delta-195-Epsilon west 83-116 cm. below upper course of temple wall. 477. Coin. North of Temple B Gamma-Delta 10-12 C _____ in 2nd stratum just outside precinct wall. May 7. 478. 14 archaic jugs in sack with tag bearing this P 1171 number, many complete P 849 Trench 9 B-100-Gamma north 28-29 m. lying P 1135-40 (not on 3rd stratum (Film 18, no. 34 & Diary certain) April 21). 479. 5 complete & 10 broken jugs (no broken pieces but T 2068 these may have been removed with sherds) & P 1178 1 terracotta of animal. P 833-846 Trench 9 B-100-Gamma to wall to west, north 29.30-30.00. Jug with tag found furthest west of group - just under wall to west & Page 377 lying on stone that seems to form part of wall - see Film 19, no. 27 (29), also Diary for April 21. Jug lying on 3rd stratum among fallen stuff.

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 (10)

  • 470 (number uncertain)Terracotta headnumber uncertain
  • 471Terracotta head
  • 472Sherd of Corinthian pot
  • 473Terracotta foot with shoe
  • 474Terracotta mouth & chin of man
  • 475Terracotta head
  • 476Bronze object
  • 477Coin
  • 478Archaic jugs (14) in sack
  • 479Jugs (5 complete & 10 broken) and terracotta of animal

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