Series·Kourion, Penn Museum expedition
Catalogues, 1939–1948
21 documents · 1939–48
Sites: Kourion, Episkopi-Bamboula, Kourion-Kaloriziki, Kourion-Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates, Kourion-Stadium, Kourion-Episcopal Basilica
This series holds the expedition's catalogues and lists of finds, dated 1939–1948 in the finding aid: 21 folders and 862 pages. The first folder sets out the recording and numbering system used on the object cards. The rest are lists by site: tombs and settlement at Bamboula; miscellaneous lists for Bamboula and the Kaloriziki cemetery; sherds from Bamboula and from the trenches and "the Palace" on the city site; objects from Kaloriziki and "Paleokastro" (August 1939), from the basilica and the stadium, from "the Palace" baths (December 1948), from St Hermogenes (Ayios Ermoyenis), and from the Apollo sanctuary and St Anne (December 1939). There are three folders of coins, numbered C1–C4534, two folders of finds from the Apollo sanctuary abstracted from George H. McFadden's notebooks, a list of stamped amphora handles, and a list of objects to be treated.
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The finds were divided between the Cyprus Museum, the University Museum and Curium House at Episkopi, and two folders hold the division and packing lists for the Cyprus Museum and for the University Museum. Robert Scranton, writing up the sanctuary's architecture, noted how much McFadden had recorded in the inventories of finds.
Sources
- Penn Museum Archives. Kourion, Cyprus Expedition records, PU-Mu 1050. Finding aid by K. T. Baxter, L. Rosen and L. Zych, 2014. Philadelphia: Penn Museum Archives. https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_MUSEUM_PU-MU.1050 (accessed 4 November 2026).
- Benson, J. L. 1972. Bamboula at Kourion: The Necropolis and the Finds Excavated by J. F. Daniel (University Museum Monograph, Haney Foundation Series 12). Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, p. ix.
- Scranton, R. 1967. The Architecture of the Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates at Kourion (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 57.5). Philadelphia, p. 4 n. 6.
Transcribed, page by page
- Box 24, folder 1Recording and numbering system for object cards1939–1948 · 11 pages
- Box 24, folder 2Bamboula, Tombs and settlements1939–1948 · 33 pages
- Box 24, folder 3Bamboula, Miscellaneous lists1939–1948 · 40 pages
- Box 24, folder 4Bamboula and Kaloriziki, Miscellaneous lists1939–1948 · 13 pages
- Box 24, folder 5Bamboula and Kourion Complex (trenches, palace), Sherds1939–1948 · 62 pages
- Box 24, folder 6Kaloriziki, Miscellaneous lists1939–1948 · 39 pages
- Box 24, folder 7Kaloriziki and Paleokastro, Objects (Aug. 1939)August 1939 · 30 pages
- Box 24, folder 8Kourion Complex, Basilica and Stadium Objects1939–1948 · 17 pages
- Box 24, folder 9Kourion Complex, Palace (Baths) Objects Dec. 1948December 1948 · 64 pages
- Box 24, folder 10Kourion Complex, Coins (C1–C2760)1939–1948 · 57 pages
- Box 24, folder 11Kourion Complex, Coins (C2761–C4534)1939–1948 · 69 pages
- Box 24, folder 12Kourion Complex, Coins Miscellaneous1939–1948 · 35 pages
- Box 24, folder 13Ayios Ermoyenis, Objects1939–1948 · 69 pages
- Box 24, folder 14Kourion Complex (Apollo and St. Anne), Objects Dec. 1939December 1939 · 13 pages
- Box 24, folder 15Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (1 of 2)1939–1948 · 79 pages
- Box 24, folder 16Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (2 of 2)1939–1948 · 107 pages
- Box 24, folder 17Stamped amphora handles (SH)1939–1948 · 32 pages
- Box 24, folder 18Objects to be treated1939–1948 · 9 pages
- Box 24, folder 19Division and packing lists; Cyprus Museum1939–1948 · 20 pages
- Box 24, folder 20Division and packing lists, University Museum1939–1948 · 54 pages
- Box 24, folder 21Miscellaneous1939–1948 · 9 pages
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 1. "Catalogues: Recording and numbering system for object cards". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 2. "Catalogues: Bamboula, Tombs and settlements". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 3. "Catalogues: Bamboula, Miscellaneous lists". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 4. "Catalogues: Bamboula and Kaloriziki, Miscellaneous lists". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 5. "Catalogues: Bamboula and Kourion Complex (trenches, palace), Sherds". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 6. "Catalogues: Kaloriziki, Miscellaneous lists". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1939. PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 7. "Catalogues: Kaloriziki and Paleokastro, Objects (Aug. 1939)". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 8. "Catalogues: Kourion Complex, Basilica and Stadium Objects". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1948. PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 9. "Catalogues: Kourion Complex, Palace (Baths) Objects Dec. 1948". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 10. "Catalogues: Kourion Complex, Coins (C1–C2760)". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 11. "Catalogues: Kourion Complex, Coins (C2761–C4534)". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 12. "Catalogues: Kourion Complex, Coins Miscellaneous". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 13. "Catalogues: Ayios Ermoyenis, Objects". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: 1939. PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 14. "Catalogues: Kourion Complex (Apollo and St. Anne), Objects Dec. 1939". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 15. "Catalogues: Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (1 of 2)". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 16. "Catalogues: Kourion Complex (Apollo), Finds (abstracted from McFadden's notebooks) (2 of 2)". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 17. "Catalogues: Stamped amphora handles (SH)". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 18. "Catalogues: Objects to be treated". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 19. "Catalogues: Division and packing lists; Cyprus Museum". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 20. "Catalogues: Division and packing lists, University Museum". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized. 
Item: PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 21. "Catalogues: Miscellaneous". Courtesy of the Penn Museum. Resized.
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