Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 2·1934

J. F. Daniel, Kourion/Kaloriziki 1934John Franklin Daniel

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

Scan 23 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 2 (J. F. Daniel, Kourion/Kaloriziki 1934), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 32Scan 23 of 100

June 9(Saturday)_ (from p. 31) Mr. Hill removing skeletons in III Σ to determine their exact position and the cause of such. (to p. 38) (from p. 31) A great deal of fresco, some still on stones, from VII O-π-P, from 0.40 on down.

(from p. 30) Finish trench IV, cistern in IV Γ going to bed rock at depth of m. 4.30. [Seems to have been lined with stone & brick blocks, such as noted on p. 30. One of stone and one of clay apparently in situ on wall B-Γ]

June 11TRENCH VI (from p. 31) VI X 0.80-1.00 coin C3734 Diocletian (296 A.D.) VI Ψ 0.80-1.00 coin C3735 Constantius Chlorus, c. 296 VI Ω 1.00-1.20 coin C3736 Constans [345] (345 A.D.) VI AA 1.00-1.20 coin illegible VI Ψ 1.00-1.20 Ins. 3 Inscription Mottled grey marble red colour in cuttings - do. Ins. 4 other piece of Ins. 4

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June 11(Monday)_ TRENCH VI

Drawing: three parallel columns representing archaeological trench sections with walls, bedrock, cisterns, cuts, and finds labeled A to Σ, Z to TT; labels: [westward], earth floor 1.20, A, wall, 20 to surf., cutting, B, drain, floor?, cutting c.70 deep, wall, 0.40 to surf., Γ stones, pot, a, b, c, Δ, floor of small stones c 40 to sup, black stone in cutting, E, Z, bed-rock, H, Θ, cutting 0.20, BED ROCK 1.50-1.70, I, raised bed-rock 10-15cm., I, bed-rock, Stones (cistern) d. c. 1.20, K wall, 1-1 = openings to same cistern at 1.80, Λ, 0.10 to 0.20 from floor, 0.27 from floor, 0.40 to surf., M, 1.20 to surf., N, general slope up, cutting c.1.00 deep, d, walls, bed-rock, cistern, wall 0.45 from surface, Π, cistern ?, P, Σ, wall, <-1.85->, Z, wall, T, Y, wall, pot 0.60, 0.50, Φ, 4.40, rock ca. 1.80, 1.80, ca. 2.00, X, wall, Ψ, drains, wall, 0.60 from surface, Ω, c a 0.50?, paring?, AA, carved ante-base, BB, TT, paved block

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

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