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 37 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.

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East wall of exedra 4

This wall is like the other east and west walls of exedrae 1, 2 and 3. The east face has been cleared down to bedrock from the south end to 7.55 m to north and from 12.50 m to the patio west wall. The east face of this wall is not particularly regular and not cleared below level - 0.50 m. The rubble foundation, where examined is rather irregular to bedrock. From 12.50 m to the north end the foundation courses fairly project beyond the face of the wall. Above the foundation there are two courses in all a width with blocks measuring from 1.02 m to 1.20 m in length. Highest level of through thickness of the wall is approximately 0.55 m. Above course 2 the wall is, in in rough masonry, preserved to a maximum height of level + 0.34 m. at the north end, a threshold block rests on the toplevel the wall which here is of total

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Digging 6 East wall of exedra 4 Levels of top of

bedrockfoundation course 12
1.30 m north- 2.51- 1.51 m 51- 1.06 m 56- 0.50 m
8.10- 0.51 m 55
12.45- 1.50 m- 1.35 45- 0.90 m- 0.35 m
N. end- 1.35 m- 1.27 m 61- 0.76 m 54- 0.22 m

(Top of east wall under threshold + 0.02)

(" " Threshold N. end+ 0.204)

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