Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 7·1934–1954

Kourion Complex Trenches

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

Scan 1 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 7 (Kourion Complex Trenches), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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CURIUM.

Trench II. Levels below + near NW corner

Macadam c..60 N of 'E' east 1.53 " opp. 'B' 1.61 T.C. drain at bank just N of 'Z' 1.58 " northernmost joint 1.59 Upper good N-S wall, N end orthostate block c..40 S of 'Z' 1.98 Macadam ? opposite & 'Θ' 3.43 Good N-S wall E of pavement, N end orthostate opp. 'I' 2.77 Pavement ca. opposite 'K' 3.54 ) both by N-S wall 'Λ' 3.68 ) 'M' 3.91 'N' 3.88 'Ξ' 4.05 'O' 4.13 Pavement E of deep drain 4.21 " ca. 1.00 W of drain 4.14 (a little uncertainty as S end of E orthostate of wall to exact position) close by 3.53 In upper west branch trench: Pavement middle of west pit (ca. 4.00 from tree) 3.35 " E side of W cross-wall 3.29 " W " mid " 3.34 " E " " " 3.43 In drain alongside heavy wall 3.90 Pavement W of wide wall 3.61 " E " " " 3.64 XXIAX W edge of ⊙ alongside heavy wall 3.14 SE corner of E high orthostate in W cross wall upper branch trench 1.97 S part of sort of curb near W end of S branch trench 2.44

Surface at stakes 'B' to 'N': E side: .37 .51, .70 1.00, 1.16, 1.29, 1.46, 1.60, 1.78, 1.88 W. " : .39, .60, .75, .87, 1.05, 1.34, 1.47, 1.60, 1.76, 1.76, 1.82, 1.89

at stakes 'Ξ' & 'O' (E side: 2.00, 2.06 = SE corner (W " : 2.17, 2.57 = old SW corner

Surface at 2m intervals (N side: 2.70, 2.99, 2.63, 2.21, 1.94 along branch (S " 2.96, 3.08, 2.70, 2.23, 1.93 (N starts at 'E' west, S at 'O' west)

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

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