Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 3·March–May 1935

J. F. Daniel, Kourion (Palace and Theatre) II Mar.–May, 1935John Franklin Daniel

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

Scan 34 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 3 (J. F. Daniel, Kourion (Palace and Theatre) II Mar.–May, 1935), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 34 of 91

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17.5.35Theatre.

Left wing. Find wall of large blocks to surface. Dug above this wall to level of its top, i.e. to a depth of 1.40 at 2.70 up-hill from its face. There is a fill of brown earth and many stones, which appears to have been a hard-pack behind the wall. The sherds and roof-tiles are of classical date.

Orchestra - cut third floor, + reach bed-rock at 1.20

Photo XXVIII 12, of W end of orchestra trench

The third floor of the orchestra, 1.10 below the surface.

Curb in entrance, 0.40 above inner floor

Photo XXIX 1 entrance to theatre Photos XXIX 2-6 stage, parodos, + seats

Drawing: square with diagonal line ending in asterisk

SH 39 Right wing, fill, 1.00 (14.5.35)

Drawing: inscription fragment; labels: ΠΟ ΛΥ, O·B·

Ins. 29 Stage, top-soil. Marble slab

Drawing: inscription fragment; labels: ΠΑΘΟ, ΤΡΟΥ

Ins. 30 Orchestra, top-soil. Marble slab

Right page

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Photos XXX 7-9 of mosaic frags. found in corridor of theatre.

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

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