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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 7 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 7 of 79

Diary p. 69

Finds:

45. Fragment of bronze bowl. Tr. 5 Lambda-Mu | M 107 west 4.20 mx cm. first stratum in surface soil. Dec. 9

46. Lamp Tr. 1 B-Gamma south 8-10 first stratumL 279
Br. Type 9. 4/12/35

47. Coin. Tr. 5 A-M east 10-12 first stratum | C 32 0-60 44 cm south of threshold and on wall where missing part of threshold once lay. 11 Dec. Marcus Aurelius c. 176 A.D.

48. Coin. Street 1, E-Z west 2-4, first stratum_____
0-20 cm.
49. Bird in stone. Street 1 E-Z west 2-4St 423
first stratum 0-20
50. Bronze (in two pieces, broken by workman)M 74
Street 1,^E-Z (cf. 48-49) J.Y. west 2-4, first stratum 0-30.

51. Marble inscription in 8 inscribed fragments | I 88 and one uninscribed. Tr. 5 Lambda-Mu east 5.50-6.00 m. just north of threshold nearly up against it first stratum. See photos p. 65. Diary page 73

52. Bronze lion's leg support 7.9 x 4.5 cm.

roughly. Street 1 E 110Z west, 2m. depthM 70
12/12/35

53. Bronze deer roughly 8.8 x 7.8 cm. Street 1 E 15 Z west 4 first stratum

depth 40 cm. 12/12/35M 56

54. Stone statuette head of bearded man in w. | St 408 Archaic smile & many traces of colour. Roughly 5.50 x 5.50 cm. Street 1 E 65 Z west 2, depth 37 cm. Dec. 12

55. Stone statuette of bearded man like 54 preserved | St 409 to the waist. Roughly 12.50 x 9.50 . Street 1 E 5 Z west 2.65 m. depth 35 cm. Dec. 12

56. Coin. Tr 5 Lambda 150 Mu 11.50 east second stratumC 36
80 cm below flags. Dec. 13. Alexander.

57. Arrowhead 4.3 x 1.2 cm. | M 374 Street 1 E 38 Z west 4.35 depth 15, first stratum. Dec. 13

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 (13)

  • M 107Fragment of bronze bowl
  • L 279Lamp
  • C 32Coin
  • Coin
  • St 423Bird in stone
  • M 74Bronze
  • I 88Marble inscription
  • M 70Bronze lion's leg support
  • M 56Bronze deer
  • St 408Stone statuette head of bearded man
  • St 409Stone statuette of bearded man
  • C 36Coin
  • M 374Arrowhead

Also mentionedSH133, SH134, P744

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