1949

For the fall season, the excavations of the University Museum at Curium were, in the absence of Mr. Hill, directed by John F. Daniel. As he expected next year to undertake another excavation, he had two principal objectives - to finish his site of Bamboula and to hand over the excavation of the 'Palace' on which he worked before the war to De Coursey Fales, Jr.

When John F. Daniel had helped Mr. Fales begin his work, he turned to Bamboula, where he worked from the 21 October, to 23 November. Christo Gregoriou was foreman with about twenty men under him. As the chief objective was the elucidation of topographical enigmas topographical detail, there were few small finds. A well was discovered under a later wall. Perhaps The most striking discovery find was a Mycenean stairway made of clay. John F. Daniel's last conclusion was that the houses of the geometric and archaic periods spread out from the late Bronze-age site in an easterly direction.

Mr. Fales worked on the Palace for about six weeks from 19 October to 2 December. Antony was foreman with about twenty men. A series of baths were discovered: two hypocausts, one a calidarium or hot bath and the other, a room warm bath or place more probably a place to sweat; two cold baths and one of whose floors was a mosaic arranged with a pattern of waves designed to represent sea waves. Between the hot baths and the cold baths, another section of mosaic was brought to light whose chief of which the … continues