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 36 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.

Page 66Scan 36 of 91

Room 5. cont'd. — 1.45 from E in south wall is what may be the sill of a door into room V. It may go to 3.20. It is ca. 0.45 above the wall / sill is 20/

Θk' in N-S wall (outside wall) are two unfluted column frags. One, with a square cutting ca. 4 cm. sq. has a diameter of 0.55. The other, broken rough at both ends, has a diameter of ca. 0.65. Both are unfluted, of sandstone.

Margin left: 9.12.35

Room I (entrance) - surface — large cornice block 1.09 × 0.52 × 0.29

Drawing: architectural cornice block with dentils and profile moldings

Photo [illegible] . 5 of block

Right page

Room MC 2065

Xk' in N-E corner of side wall . 0.20 below top of wall E-S? coin | [margin right: Ptolemaic Ptolemy X Cyprus]

Xk' in stony strosis — Type 28 lamp frag.

Xk' in stony strosis — frag. of relief lamp, type

The stones (b) seen one on another in Θi' in the line of the antae are not in place, but lying on the floor. Their face is curved, and they seem to be from an arch connecting the antae.

Find a soft floor containing much gravel. The fallen stones are on it.

Margin left: 9.12.35

Blocks b

lowerupper
49 × 35 × 2450 × 22 × 34

Back face rough. Curve of ca 1:34 on front face. These stones are fallen from an arch

Drawing: architectural block with dimensions 34, 24, 22, 35] [sketch: curved architectural block profile

Block a — fallen. Photo F 12

This may be half of the capital of the anta, joining the arch.

Drawing: architectural profile with moldings

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

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