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

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pottery in quantity on floor, few tiles on east side, very few on west. See yesterday's diary. Stratum 3, east side contained brown soil - rather light brown - hard in places - soft elsewhere - no gypsum as in stratum 2 - few tiles, fair number sherds - very little glass. Removing lower debris in room 8, bath, west end, page 1283-3. Typical kind of debris - light brown buff soil, a good deal of decomposed chavara - stones of varying size - some rough - some worked - a few stored on west wall - others going to construction pile. Relatively few rough blocks compared to worked ones. Few small rough stones only. Very few tiles - surprisingly few. Began removing bath.

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room 3, hypocaust, stratum 3, section page 1263. Dark soil blackened by fire, a stratum dating from the last period of use. Continued digging west of room 5, stratum 5 - shall report on this later, also west of room 4. Continued removing upper debris from building at southeast corner of temple B precinct. Very dark soil - darkened doubtless by roots and many rough stones of varying size, very compact.

14 May 1949 Mehmet continues to remove stratum 3 from bath, room 3, hypocaust, a stratum blackened by fire, [handwritten: ...] from period of use. Very clean fill found only in upper part of stratum. Lower part has practically nothing in it, so far. Finished removing west of room 5, bath, stratum 5 and 6, section page 1277. Stratum 5, darker than 4, loose, few rough

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stones, very few tiles, not many sherds. Stratum 6 a light reddish brown stratum - few stones, rough ones only varying in size up to 20 cm. in greatest dimension. Probably not debris but fill. Finished removing upper debris from area south of room 7, bath (south bath precinct) section page 1257, stratum 1 - reddish light brown soil - loose - rough stones of varying size also some worked blocks which are going either to construction pile or being stored ( a few only) on south precinct wall. Inscription F123 found here at bottom of stratum 1, section page 1257. No plaster or gypsum found this area - tiles comparatively few. Removing debris west of bath between walls on either side of trench 9, iota, (west bath precinct) section page 1275 - stratum 2 - reddish light brown loose soil - rough stones of varying size - most of worked stones being stored on west bath precinct wall.

See also section (for north end of west precinct) page 1267-3, reddish light brown soil, rough stones of varying size, worked blocks being placed here also on west wall - soft stratum. For west of room 4, see section page 1245. Continued digging building at southeast corner of temple B precinct much the same as yesterday. Removed fill in east doorway of room 7, bath. Slightly reddish light brown soil, very loose - many stones, fair number worked - 7 good worked including jamb with square hole through it - stored for time being at west end of room 8. Two sherds of ribbed wares on threshold block and one brick bracket. For worked blocks of note see Mr. Hill's notebook.

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16 May 1949 Began removing stratum 2 under floor in west bay of room 3, bath. See section page 1263. In flue and on either side of flue (west bay) stratum 2 is light brown soil, very few stones - no worked or large - very few small stones only north of flue and in flue - one rough stone about 15 cm. in diameter south of flue. Some tiles north of flue, very few in flue or south of flue. Continuing to dig west of bath, room 7, stratum 3, section page 1275-soft stratum of reddish brown soil - light in color - only small rough stones, not larger than fist size, no plaster; no gypsum, some tiles but few. An ancient