Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 12·October–November 1938

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) I Oct.–Nov. 1938De C. Fales

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

Scan 18 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 12 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) I Oct.–Nov. 1938), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 12, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 18 of 102

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date 25 October 38 and partial clearing of fifth. The pick man went through to fifth, inadvertently. In the middle of room E we cleared the second, bringing to light many sherds of roof tiles both flat and curved and surrounded on both sides with plaster also many other sherds including some glass. Few of these sherds go togeth seem as yet to go gether. This looks like a dump.

Room F was nearly cleared of modern upper layer, revealing mosaic forwards it.

3 5 photograph of E showing upper top of third layer.

wor work stopped 12:00 work began 1:10

Margin left: many small stones

[margin right: soil loose and brown.]

4 6. photograph of F cleared of modern debris and fill.

3 7. The same.

4 8. Hole in same showing last lowest στρωμα

not taken

Right page

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date 25 Oct. 1938 Small finds

Sh 1348 στρωμα inscribed

6. fr sherd from second στρωμα room E corner near F + C.

Drawing: inscribed marks

C 2012 7. (Constantius II 345-361) area I

coin from between third & fourth layers area I near flagstones over cistern.

L 502 8. Fr. lamp, type XXVIII Room E, third layer near corner F + C Rm

[margin left: 9. Sherd with letter I. Room H on mosaic. Sh 1347]

Photograph

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

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