Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 8·1934–1954

Kourion Complex Miscellaneous

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

Scan 33 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 8 (Kourion Complex Miscellaneous), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 5, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 32Scan 33 of 63

East wall of exedra 3 The west face of this wall, which is the the east and west walls of exedrae 1 and 2 has been cleared to bedrock to the west [illegible] from the south end to 5.40m north. The east face of the south wall (that described in diagram 3 fig [blank] Where bedrock is its subfoundation) abuts against bedrock [on] the south side of this south end part of wall (plaster see on earlier wall, diagram fig ). The wall above the foundation except at top of the fourth running through the structure wall of exedra is approx. of 9.55m. The top of course 2 is everywhere level with top of the fourth cycle but terminating against its north face the north wall having bedrock for foundation arid has not been cleared to avoid removing floor here. It appears to be of same construction. At this end, there are the foundations of a violent wall or of blocks on the top of this east wall whose tops are to that level -.04m. The top

DIAGRAM 4, fig East wall of exedra 3 Levels of top of

Distance northRockfoundcourse 123
of s. face of
S. wall
S. end- 2.17- 1.44- 0.95- 0.41
5.40m- 2.30- 1.44- 0.93- 0.38
7.20m north- 1.53- 0.97- 0.41
14.50m "- 1.31- 0.90- 0.32

Above course 2 the wall was 1 constructed of rough masonry but this is not preserved to a height above level - 0.04m.

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