Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 4·1934–1954

Kourion Complex Basilica (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)

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

Scan 5 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 4 (Kourion Complex Basilica (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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May 9. Began T-U [handwritten: 0-8]. 24 men. Dug in narthex I-0 [handwritten: 4-8]. May 10. 24 men. Completed digging first stratum T-U [handwritten: 0-8]. Dug in narthex I-0 [handwritten: 0-12]. May 11. 24 men. Dug only in narthex I-0 [handwritten: 12-16]. Began building walls around to protect them from falling in. May 13. 19 men, only 1 car. Dug only I-0 [handwritten: 12-16], 1st stratum in narthex. May 14. 13 men. 7 others working in fields cutting down thistles. Narthex and a-y [handwritten: between aisle and nave walls]. May 15. 13 men. Narthex and a-u [handwritten: between aisle and north nave walls]. May 16. 13 men. Same as 15th. May 17. Dug in narthex and a-v [handwritten: between aisle and north nave walls] ( 13 men) between aisle and north nave walls.

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

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