Catalogue·PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 16·1939–1948

Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (2 of 2)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 10 of catalogue PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 16 (Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (2 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 16, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 10 of 107

Finds[right-aligned: Diary page 1459]
691.Lamp frag. Handle belonging probably to Broneer
type XXVIII. Discarded, too fragmentary to cat.
Bath, just outside n.w. corner of room 4.[pencil: 10]
Section p. 1455-2. 2 June 49.
692.Large frag. of rim which is divided into 4 equal
polxxxxxxpanels, herring-bone pattern on rim.
and 11 other frags. (All join into one lamp).
Bath just north of n.e. corner of room 4 up against[pencil: 10]
n. face of n. wall. 1455-2. 2 June '49.
[right-aligned: Page 1460]
693.Lamp frags.
(a). Greek lamp frag. Clean, pinkish hard bakedL 1530
clay, black glaze fired unevenly to red, perforated
lug handle.
(b) Frags. of late Roman lamps - thin walls, brown
buff clean clay, wick hole on rim; no volutes;
plain discus save for ridge (concentric) on one
frag. All frags. from same fabric. Type XXV,
discarded as too fragmentary.
E. of east double precinct wall half way between
Temple B precinct & Bath. Depth 0.27 m. 20May49
694.Trefoil lipped jug. Complete save for part ofP 2560
rim and small frag above foot. Base ring.
Rounded bottom. Nxxxx Nicely ribbed handle.
Concentric groove on shoulder. Curium clay fired
light brown. no slip. H. 0.187 m. D. 0.16 m.
Cistern 3, depth 4.92 m. below top of coping.[right-aligned: Page 1461]
See section p. 1369-7. 31 May 49.
695.Lamp, complete and unbroken. Clean yellowish buffL 1557
clay. Depressed base. Gr. length 0.085 m. H.
0.025 m. Broneer Type XXVIII. Circa 4th cent.A.D.
No signs of having been used. Inscribed base,
illegible. Bath, in flue under doorway between
room 2 & 3. Depth 0.145 m. from floor of flue[pencil: 8-9]
p. 1465-3. In accumulation blackened by fire
dating from last period of use as Bath, that is
of hot water bath.
[right-aligned: Page 1462]
696.Ter. lamp, complete and unbroken. Like 659.L 1558
Black from use around nozzle wick hole.
Depressed base. Gr. length 0.078 m. H. 0.024 m.
Broneer type XXVIII. Circa 4th century A.D.
Bath, found with 695 but at level of 0.19 m. &
above floor. 4 June 49.
697.Coin. Ptol. XIII 80/51 B.C. Eagle onr everse
Cistern 3, sieve, 1369-7, 30 May 49.
[right-aligned: Page 1474]
698.Frag. glass bowl? Heavy fabric in green to amberGl 149
glass with iridescence. Rounded rim (raised base?)
Gr. D. 0.062 m. West Bath precinct, west of room 5[pencil: 10-3]
near precinct west wall. Depth -40 (/- -0* on s. wall
of room 3 of Bath) removed under Mr. Hill's direction.
Found above note of provenience on box. 6 May 1949.
699.Coin w. bevelled edge. Ptol. X 116/80 B.C.
Cistern 3, 0.40 m. below cistern floor in settling
pit. p. 1467-11. 7 June 49.
Ptol. X, 116/80 B.C.
[right-aligned: Page 1480]
700.Stamped amphora handle, Rhodian. Brick red hardSh 190
baked clay, with grits. Light buff slip. Rect-
angular stamp. P.H. 0.082 m. Cistern 3, p.
1467-11. 7 June 49.

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)

  • 691Lamp frag. Handle
  • 692Lamp (large frag. of rim)
  • 693Lamp frags.
  • 694Trefoil lipped jug
  • 695Lamp
  • 696Ter. lamp
  • 697Coin
  • 698Frag. glass bowl?
  • 699Coin w. bevelled edge
  • 700Stamped amphora handle, Rhodian

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