Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 17·c. 1955

Kourion Complex Palace (Mosaics) Fales, c. 1955 (1 of 2)De C. Fales (probably)

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

Scan 55 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 17 (Kourion Complex Palace (Mosaics) Fales, c. 1955 (1 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 17, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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… seen this confirmed by the mosaics of room (49), the crosses in room (52) and the crosses in room (10). [handwritten: 368] In the mosaic floor of room (39), there are four panels. These panels are of about equal width and [handwritten: length] length, except for the second panel from the north which is about one and one half times the length of the others. This second panel [handwritten: on the west side] is purely geometric in design and extends [handwritten: from just on the east side] [handwritten: o] the south south of the north end of the niche and [handwritten: o] the south side of the north wall of the bath (room 41) to the south side of the south wall of this second panel The panel, which immediately south of this second panel

Handwritten: Third

from the north, is predominantly geometric in design. In the middle of the panel, a rectangular frame in the middle of the panel, there is the picture of a partridge. [handwritten: 369] This panel is about opposite the apodyterion (40). This and the oblong one to the north of it are set off from the other two panels, the northernmost and the southernmost, by the border which surrounds the four panels in a northsouth direction. This border does not extend across between the two middle panels but does extend across between their southern end and the southernmost panel and between their northern end and the northernmost panel. Of the panel to the south of these two middle panels, the preserved part is of geometric design and of so large an extent that the non-preserved part, if not of geometric design, must have been small in

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

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