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 11 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.

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Diary page 57

Dec. 5. Tr. 5. Finished removing surface soil Lambda-Mu & Lambda-Mu west 0-2 & east 0-4. Removed second stratum west 0-2. See photos no. 14, p. 53. Also dug first stratum M-Xi west 0-2 & Xi-Pi west 0-2.

Dec. 6. Apollo Street 1. E-H east 0-2. Street 1 H-lambda first stratum. Street 1 H-Z west 0-4 Tr. 5 Z-E east 0-4. Theta-Lambda east 0-4. Lambda-Mu east 4-8 all first strata. St. Anne trench the same. 45 men, 14 wheelbarrows. much

Dec. 7. Street 1 H-Theta east 0-2 found archaic altar within wall, small arc of which was found yesterday. Many terracotta statuettes intact. Also legs of horses fixed upright in place on stone slab (T 1700 a-d). See photos p. 59, nos. 26, 28, 29 & 30. Almost finished cleaning Street 1, I-Lambda. Dug E-K east 0-4 removing surface soil. Beginning Theta-Kappa in afternoon. Theta-K west 0-4 is apparently some (?) previous dump - at least upper part of it. See photos p. 159 no. 30 referred to here as mound. Tr. 5 Lambda-Mu east 0-6 (?), Mu-Xi 0-6. St. Anne much the same. Christo replaced Triphon and Triphon came to Apollo.

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