Series·Kourion, Penn Museum expedition

Drawings and plans, 1935–1954

4 drawings, 2 plans

Sites: Kourion, Kourion-Sanctuary of Apollo Hylates

This series holds drawings of the expedition, dated in the finding aid 1935–1954: seven folders, six of them scanned, with 323 pages. Three folders hold pottery drawings made for J. L. Benson's publications of Bamboula and the Kaloriziki cemetery, one holds drawings of objects from the Apollo sanctuary, and two hold site drawings of the sanctuary. A seventh folder, of squeezes of the graffiti from Bamboula, was not scanned. Oversize plans and drawings in the collection were not scanned either, so the larger sheets are not shown here.

The expedition's architects and draughtsmen changed over the years. Dorothy H. Cox joined as architect for the third season, in November–December 1935. J. S. Last served as architect for a number of years and prepared the plans and drawings for the publication of the Ayios Ermoyenis tombs. Benson's Bamboula volume of 1972 used drawings by C. Polycarpou, G. R. H. Wright, Marion Welker, Leonard Woodworth, Grace Muscarella and Benson himself, and Polycarpou drew all its house, tomb and site plans under Last's supervision. Other drawings are filed elsewhere in the collection: a folder of Cox's drawings and one of plans among the photographs, and drawings of the stadium of 1947 among the reports.

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).
Daniel, J. F. 1937. "Two Late Cypriote III Tombs from Kourion." American Journal of Archaeology 41, pp. 56–85 (esp. p. 56 n. 4).
McFadden, G. H. 1946. "A Tomb of the Necropolis of Ayios Ermoyenis at Kourion." American Journal of Archaeology 50, pp. 449–489 (esp. p. 449 n. 1).
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.