Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 1·1934–1954

Kourion Complex Apollo (extracted from McFadden's notebooks) (1 of 2)

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

Scan 10 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 1 (Kourion Complex Apollo (extracted from McFadden's notebooks) (1 of 2)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 1, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 10 of 65

Diary page 47

Dec. 3 Tr. 6 prolonged trench fr. M to Xi. Tr. 5 Lambda-Mu east 0-4. Tr. 1 B-Gamma south 4-8 removing surface soil 4-8. Tr. 5 Delta-Lambda west 0-2 beginning to remove surface. Tr. 1 gamma-epsilon north 0-2 also gamma-epsilon removing surface moil. Much the same in and about Tr. 4 temple. 38 men 11 wheelbarrows of which one as yesterday. Much the same in St. Anne. Tr. 5 H-Theta east 0-4 continued removing second stratum to pavement. St. Anne M-N north 4-6 N-Xi north 4-6 & 6-8 Xi-0 north 6-8.

Dec. 4. Tr. 5 Delta-E west 2-6 first stratum. Finished removing first stratum Tr. 5 Delta-Lambda west 0-2. Coins found H-Theta west 0-2 just off stone paving top of 2nd stratum. Tr. 5 also Lambda-Mu east 0-4 first stratum. Started digging Tr. 5 M-Pi west 0-2. Continued digging first stratum Tr. 1 B-Gamma south 4-12. Continued digging south of Tr. 4 temple between walls running north and south. St. Anne much the same. Xi-Pi north 6-8.

Diary page 48

Trench 5. Parallel with peristyle of Room 3 of South Building.

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