Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 11·1954

G. Roger Edwards, Apollo Notes 1954G. Roger Edwards

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

Scan 7 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 11 (G. Roger Edwards, Apollo Notes 1954), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 11, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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third course of the staircase wall there is an obviously patched area of construction - small blocks chinked with tile frs. & stone chips. The 3_rd_/ & 4_th_/ courses of the staircase wall pass over this patch. Is it a repair of the wall where the original blocks decayed, or perhaps evidence for a n-s. staircase preceding Curium Gate?

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S E Bldg. July 5, 1954

In the courtyard are numerous piles of roof tiles from GHM's/F's excavations. The tags with them have weathered so that it is no longer possible to read them. Christophis plots the location of these piles and I am selecting samples of each for storage I give the piles numbers as recorded on Christophis' plan.

1. 10 May 50 Room 3 1887.3 Pile originally 1.00 x .80 x .50 high. Flat pan + triangular cover tiles of various types many covered with plaster to attach pans to covers

2 Pile originally 1.00 x 1.00 x .50. Pan, triangular cover tiles, square floor tile. 2 complete pan tiles recovered. Trench 11, Room 3, Lower debris. 9 May 50

3 Pile originally 0.70 x 0.70 x 0.10 high Flat pan tiles, triangular cover tiles (some covered w plaster. Square floor (?) tiles: pipe fr. Limestone basin spout.

4 75 x 80 x 20. "9 May SE Bldg Tr 11 N 0- - STRAT - Lower debris. Pan, \^ cover tiles. pipe fr. Some floor plaq fr.

5. Pile originally .50 x .50 x .10 high Pan tiles fr. Triangular cover tiles 1 cover tile with plaster adhering

6 Pile originally 1.00 x 1.00 x 0.50 Pan & \^ cover tiles. Marble revetment fr

7 N window Room # 2 19 June 51 2865-1 Pan & \^ cover tiles.

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

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