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 95 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 95 of 107

Diary page 558

Inscriptions 1. See opposite page. a & c,d 2nd stratum, b 3rd stratum. West Bldg. R 1 west end in sample left from previous year. See I 91 - Film 7, 21, Diary p. 145 for April 8, 1936 F 164. 2. Opposite page. W. Bldg Room 7 3rd stratum I 94 lying against north wall - centre - just left of possible stairway. May 19, '39. Blue marble slab., 3. Near New Temple B. h. 32.7 full I 159 l. 60 preserved th. 58 Possible base for statue. Curved Inscr. l,83, h. ; th 29.2 to 37. Film 44 4. Curved Inscr. L. 83 - as pres. Th. 29.2 to about Page 628 37 at one end. H. 29.5 (full). Film 44 I 158 5. Frag. black painted plain inturning rim of low bowl with Cypriot letter _____ for _____. found 627-4.

627 means p. 627 4 means 4th stratum of cross section. 6. Handle small pot. Coarse micaceous clay - hard baked, brick coloured. 627-4. Page 648 7. Inscribed handle. Violet brick coloured - air holes - coarse unpainted. 627-2. 8. Inscribed pot handle. Plain xxxxx ware, 675.coarse clay - gray insice, brick outixxside, brown surface. 64.7 9. Inscribed handle. Coarse clay, brick red. 676. 645.3 Page 652 10. Inscribed handle. Preserved h. about 8 cm. 677. Coarse clay, micaceous brick coloured. Page 656 10. (sic) Inscription. Dedicatory. I 141 h. 53, w. 44, th. 12 cm. Film 45, 21 & 22. Found in Stoa, against front wall S. Bldg. opposite west peristyleion - 1st str. Lying on large block.face down See Film 45, nos. 4 & 5 for phace where found. Also Film 44-39. Page 662 11. Gray brick coloured clay, matt black paint Found 619.4 12. Light brown clay, possibly Rhodian. 651.2 Sh 1263 13. Brick red coarse clay. 619.4 Page 663 14. Red brick - coarse micaceous, surface black fr. fire. 619.4. 15. Coarse red brick clay, gray surface, incised A 16. Red brick coloured clay, coarse. 619.4. Page 664 17. Red brick coloured clay, coarse. 619.4 18. Dark red brick coarse clay, black surface, inside red surface. 19. Red brick coloured clay, coarse. 625.5 20. Coarse violet coloured hard baked clay. P 1099 Cypriot character, unpainted 19/6/39

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)

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Recorded (22)

  • Inscription
  • Inscription
  • Inscription (curved)
  • Inscription (curved)
  • Frag. (rim of low bowl)
  • Handle (small pot)
  • Inscribed handle
  • Inscribed pot handle
  • Inscribed handle
  • Inscribed handle
  • Inscription (dedicatory)
  • Sherd (brick coloured clay, matt black paint)
  • Sherd
  • Sh 1263Sherd
  • Sherd
  • Sherd
  • Sherd (incised A)
  • Sherd
  • Sherd
  • Sherd
  • Sherd
  • P 1099Sherd

Also mentionedSh 1263, P 1099

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