Correspondence·PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 5·1952–April 1953

1952–April 1953

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 4 of correspondence PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 5 (1952–April 1953), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 2, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 4 of 94

Drawing: floor plan; labels: E, D, C, B, F, G, L, M, H, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, A, 300 ft., (If oblong, length plus breadth 600 ft)

Morgan's Vitruvius p 161 V's Greek Palaestra

Morgan's tr. p. 160

□ 12 stade / to side / 4 = 1

A - "roomy recess with seats" Ephedras

B - "young man's hall" Ephebeum

C - "the bag room" Coryceum

D - "the dust room" Conisterium

E - "the cold washing room" frigida lavatio "which the Greeks call λ\omicronυτρ\omicronν

F - "the anointing room" Elaeothesium

G - "the cold bath room" tepidarium

H - "the furnace room" propnigeum

I - "the vaulted sweating bath" (twice as long as wide) sudatio

K - "a laconicum"

L - "the warm washing room" calida lavatio

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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