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 4 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 ③Scan 4 of 91

March 13Trench XXIV (from over) 2.

XXIV M surface: coin [red: C 1042] (drawing)

[red: Sh51] XXIV I 0.20 Late Roman sherd with (drawing) stamped cross. ✝ Latin cross

[red: S 50] XXIV A 0-.20 do (drawing) Greek cross

[red: S 52] XXIV I near bottom of sand: sherd with (6-armed swastika) — incised. depth. ca. 0.60

Drawing: monogram/symbol

Clear to second strata (brown sandy soil) Dig down in sections A-B, E-Z, I-K, Ξ-O; leaving others as they are for the time being

[red: L 193] Lamp frag. (M, sand) Late Roman: cross on discus.

Sherds gsand all Roman, early & late. Nothing recognised as earlier than Pergamene (one stamped with palmettes) Much late Roman.

Discard 14 tins of from sand sherds; keep one half tin.

Photo XVII 3 of view from table

14-3-35Dig to depth of in sects. , but still no walls. Rocky soil.

(to p. 9)

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March 13TRENCH XXV

Start trench no. 25, at right angles to walls on slope above trench 24, and up through gateway. One meter wide; 100 metres long.

Drawing: vertical strip trench; labels: 25 A., A, E B, Δ Γ, Γ Δ, B E, A

March 14[red: Sh 25] 25 A 0.60, stamped amph. handle. Rhodian Helios (drawing)

Find floor (stamped earth) at depth of in It rises slightly and unevenly at

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

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