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 23 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 23 of 102

43 date 27 October 1948

Further in bath I earth becomes whiter and more sand. It is some what similar to third layer in K^K/, a number of frags of marble slabs. [illegible] the ones without rounded edges. Towards bottom it becomes there is a hard layer. Lime stone says the pickman.

From K, third layer, moulding capital. From L, first layer [illegible] circular capital

This bottom layer of I contains: plaster with small blue stones pieces of marble, piece of plaster with tiles badly preserved roof tiles;

9 12. photograph of same. 10 13. photograph of same. 11 14. photograph of same.

12 15. photograph of wall stones built on mosaique in K. 14 16. fill between above.

In. I, clearing plaster on bottom of mosaique In K, continue to clear mosaique In L upper layers began to be removed. work stopped 17:00

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44 date 28 October 1948

work began 07:30

cleared bath room I clearing mosaique K clearing Room L Began to clean passage M

From near room L moulding three sides of block No. 1 From room L first fill, No. 2 piece of with dentillation and moulding soffit.

From K, three pieces of moulding two similar first layer. 2 more pieces of moulding but [illegible] with (drawing) see p. 196

Room L a little top soil then mass of Rocks loam with little or no earth except on side with step where there is a different fill. In Room K, second layer becomes higher and on bottom of it mass of small stones.

Room I bath cleared and men transferred to [illegible] M. removing first two layers. top caused by traces of previous excavation. work stopped 12:00, continued p. 47

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

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