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

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[page number: Diary page 2445 Page 2456] Removed corrido^r 1, 00-6.10 n. of s. wall, 2289-7, loose brown soil, not many stones, rather few - rough ones averaging fist size. No tiles whatsoever. About 11/2/ buckets of sherds. From here come coins F 1520-1532 incl. (a small hoard all about at same level on what appears once to have been a rough ground level. Almost all found near foundation walls

Margin left: 1558

From here came also F 1533, lamp frag.? and F 1539, bronze object, a small bead F 1535 and F 1536. No other finds. From sieve came 1/4 bucket sherds. 3 coins, F 1537, 1538, 1539, and bone disc 1540, and iron frags. 1541. No other finds.

18 Dec.50 (Monday). Removed soil that washed into pit in corridor 3, a pit dug before war, see section p. 491. Found here coin F 1542. It may have washed in. 1/10 bucket sherds - thrown out; and few pieces of lime plaster. Removed corridor 4, 1.70-4.60 n. of s. wall, 2257-6, dark red soil of type characteristic over bedrock; very few stones; compact fill, no tiles, handful of sherds. No other finds.

Removed P. 2321-6, room 4, w. side, 1.70-5.30 n. of s. wall, hard compact dark red soil characteristic of that usually found over bedrock; very few stones - about fist size - rough ones - no tiles; handful of sherds; no other finds. From sieve a handful of sherds and few bones. No other finds. Removed corridor 4, 5.15-7.10 m. no of s. wall, 2411-2; dark red soil, compact with very few stones, largest ones being about egg size; soil characteristic of that usually found over bedrock. 2 tile frags. only placed on bedrock at 5.15 m. against w. wall. No tag placed with them. No other finds. Ab out 1/4 bucket sherds. From sieve about 1/12 bucket sherds. No other finds.

[page number: Page 24624 (see sections p. 631 and 2463)] Removed corridor 2, 5.35-6.50 n. of s. wall 2463-1 after cleaning pre-war trench of foreign soil that had come in since. Rather compact brown soil, comparatively few stones - largest about fist size; 1 tile frag. only - placed in sherd bag, about 1/7 bucketxxxxxxxxx sherds; a bronze ring F 1543 and a frag. blown glass F 1544. No other finds. Nothing found in sieve. Removed S. Bldg. room 4, center 00-1.17 m. w. of e. wall and 7.55-9.60 n. of s. wall, 2443-1 and 2, few sherds - thrown out. 4th cent. A.D. usual. From 2443-1 came about a wheelbarrow and 1/2 of tiles which I am stacking against course of orthostates of e. stylobate at 5.60 n. of s. wall of building. A few stones in 1 averaging

Margin left: F 1559

foot size but 2 about 11/2 buckets in size. Strat. 2 consisted of clean soil without stones, rather loose. 2443-1 & 2 both under column - block no. 250 and blocks 251 and 252. These blocks are now all on east stylobate. Removed same trench 2443-3, 00-1.17 m. west of east wall, loose brown soil, good number strike through stones averaging egg to fist size - a few up to double fist size; about 1/7 bucket tiles which I am stacking at 9.65 n. no of s. wall against e. stylobate wall, with one worked block. About 1/4 bucket sherds. At top of strat. came late Roman lamp frag. F 1545. From strat. came also coins F 1546 and F 1547. No other finds. 2443-3 is fill dating to time before laying of paved floor which was robbed in antiquity. The lamp F 1545 slipped into top of fill.

19 Dec.50. Removed corridor 2, 00-1.85 m. n. of s. wall, 2385-4, loose light coffee colored soil, few stones only, averaging egg size, a few up to foot size. 6 tile frags. only which I am stacking on S. foundation wall where it meets south wall. About 1/2 bucket sherds. From here came lamp frags. F 1548 and F 1549, and bone F 1550. No other finds. From sieve came about 1/4 bucket sherds. No other finds12 Removed room 3, e. side, 1.70-5.15 n. of s. wall 2291-ix same as 11 for which see p. 2424. Handful of sherds only. No tiles.