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 18 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 18 of 18

Kourion, trench 2o 9

building, unquestionably of Roman date, seems to be built in a Cypri{ote version of the Corinthian style. A capital of unusual form was found near the column mentioned above. Within the building were floors of marble mosaic constructed of large stones, and destroyed, of large square stones, maybe of marble. Outside was a pavement of coarse sand.

The fill, of sand, contained late Roman sherds. There were no incidental finds.

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

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