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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 96 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 96 of 107

Inscriptions | Diary page 664 20. (cont'd). S. Bldg. R 5 west Gamma-E, 4th strat. p. 645

| Page 678 21. Pot handle, coarse brick coloured clay | P 1463 with brown core - gritty - gray surface. South Bldg. R 2 H-Theta 7th stratum. 1/6/39. p. 489. 22. Brick coloured clay, hard hard baked, buff | P 1464 surface. Same place 21. 1/6/39. 23. Coarse gray hard baked clay. South Bldg. | P 1465 Room 1 west, 3rd stratum, p. 479. 2/5/39.

| Page 679. 24. Pot handle, dull red brown clay. T. 0.011 | P 1466 25/5/39. West Bldg. 4th room, 2nd stratum p. 535. 25. Pot handle. Coarse pink hard baked clay | P 1467 stamped? W. 0.023. T. 0.043. W. Bldg. Room 4, strat 3 b, p. 535. 27/5/39

| Page 681 26. Large building inscription. See diary p. 580, also Film No. 42, No. 2, 34, 35 & 36 for | I 152 place where found showing inscription before turning over. Found 3.115 m. from north wall of south building face down flush with plaster on fallen wall. See Mr. Hill's notebook also, p. 54 ff. "Between 2E & 3W at 3.10 to 3.50 from wall plaque 1.175 x 0.40 lies face down w. plaster of wall continuous with it. Rotted iron dowel found at ends & top c. 0.69 - 1.86 west of opening of #3W projected.

Page 690
Inscriptions:
ΛATHIKOI 157

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 (7)

  • P 1463Pot handle
  • P 1464Brick coloured clay, hard baked, buff surface. Same place 21
  • P 1465Coarse gray hard baked clay. South Bldg. Room 1 west, 3rd st
  • P 1466Pot handle
  • P 1467Pot handle
  • I 152Large building inscription
  • I 157Inscription

Also mentionedSH133, SH134, P744

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