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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 8 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 8 of 79

Diary page 75

58. Arrowhead 2.9 x 2.2 cm. bronze. Street 1 E 35 Z west 4.46 first stratum depth 45 cm.

59. Sherd - black glaze Attic ware found | P 1051 on surface Tr. 5 M 100 N east 11. First stratum 10 cm. 13/12 35

60. Feet of statue preserved to ankles | T 2038 ???? stone base - 14.50 x 11.50 cm. Height 8 cm. Tr. 5 M 150 N east 13.50 Dec. 13

61. Marble inscription fragment in 2 piecesI 89
Apollo Tr. 5 M 150 N east 13.50 cm.I 90
depth 20 fr. surface.

Dec. 134 to judge from Diary

62. Coin Tr. 5 Gamma exactly east 8-10 Room 4 | C 37 South Building. 10 cm. west of west colonnade surface soil. 4th cent. A.D.

63. Coin S. Bldg. Room 3 west 26 cm. north of south | C 38 wall of bldg and 1.47 m. from west wall of Room 3 found on floor between stones. 263 B.C. Sv. 461.

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)

  • Arrowhead
  • P 1051Sherd
  • T 2038Feet of statue
  • I 89Marble inscription fragment
  • C 37Coin
  • C 38Coin

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