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 18 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 18 of 107

Finds | Diary page 1606 766 (sic.). Coin. Mare w. foal; obv. Apollo, 3/4 face looking r. Curium Eva. 4th cent. B.C. Bronze. Found on surface by guard, Feb. 1950. See also F 245. 400-336 B.C.? (H. Cox). See B.M.C. Cyprus p. cvii, n. 3 for description only other similar coin known. Ins. above B.M. one EYA size .6 weight 72.3 grains. Euagoras II? 361-351 B.C. Apparently not noticed by H. Cox. Began removing debris north 6-8 just west of w. cella of Temple A. See Film 128- Also clearing to bottom of orthostate course of peristyleion at S. end of Temple A, W. cella.

Page 1608 767. Coin. Curium EVZ EYA, 4th cent. B.C. Like previous coin. Obv. Apollo 3 quarter l. Rvs. mare with suckling foal. Traces of inscription above: E YA for Evagoras? B.M.C. Cyprus CVII, 3. Not in excavations. Found by at See 766 and 245.

Spring 1950 768. Coin.. W. of w. end of w. cella of Temple A. In upper debris. See Film 128, no. 26, for placed where found. 14 March 1950. Arcadius or Honorius.

Page 1614 769. Coin. Valens 376-78 A.D. Temple A, just west of w. cella, 6 m. north of main stairway in debris See Film 128, #34. 15 Mar. 50.

770. Coin. Very thick. Nabataea, 9 BC-40 A.D. Temple A, room 6 (w. of w. cella). 1.49 m. n. of s. wall, 0.08 m. e. of w. wall, 0.08 m. below top of w. wall. Near surface in soil, no debris. See Film 129, no. 1. 16 Mar. 1950.

Page 1615 771. Pan tile, about complete, but broken. Guardhouse. Temple A, w. of w. cella, room 3, 50 cm. from threshold in n. wall and 30 cm. below it. See Film 129, no. 2. 16 Mar. 50.

772. Frag. marble head. Apollo? approx. .21 x | St 947 .21 cm. Central area of Street 1. Exact location not known. Mistaken by workman for rough stone and carted off to dump where subsequently found. At location M. Film 143.

Page 1618 773. Handle of ter. lamp. W. of temple A, room | L 1301 6, 1.60 m. from w. cella wall and 2.60 from s. wall of room; at 22 cm. below surface in clean soil just west of debris. 16 March.

774. Frag. inscribed granite slab. Slightly below | I 139 floor level Temple A cella in shallow intrusive pit probably made by us before war. eta(?) 8.00 m. W. cella, w. wide. 16 March.

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775. Handle of ter. lamp. Found with 774. 16 Mar. 1950L 1302
776. Bronze object with ring. E. of Temple A 2.00 m.M 843
N. of main plateia 1.50 m. Below surface 0.25 m
in debris. 20 March 50.

777. Lamp nozzle. Temple A, east cella, w. side, s. end. | L 1303 6.00 m. north of temple stairway insurface soil among debris. 20 March 50.

Page 1624 778. Coin. Ptolemy XI, 116/80. Temple A, 8.10 m. north of stairway landing, on west line of west face of west peristelion of west cella, 0.35 m. below surface in ancient fill of rough stones below top of orthostate course. For exact place see Film 129, #29.

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)

  • 766Coin
  • 767Coin
  • 768Coin
  • 769Coin
  • 770Coin
  • 771Pan tile
  • St 947Frag. marble head
  • L 1301 (number uncertain)Handle of ter. lampnumber uncertain
  • I 139Frag. inscribed granite slab
  • L 1302Handle of ter. lamp
  • M 843Bronze object with ring
  • L 1303Lamp nozzle
  • Coin

Also mentionedSH133, SH134, P744, F 245

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