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 36 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 36 of 102

69 date 3 2 November 1948

Work began 07:00?

Room O third στρῶμα being cleared. Before I arrived, the hole in this room had been enlargened

Room N continued clearing upper layer. a number of pieces with ruins and cement appeared toward South end.

Hypocaust cleared through towards West, except for pot.

9 11. Photograph of pot in SW corner of hypocaust as found.

Room O third στρῶμα cleared

Room N work begun on second στρῶμα, on west side

work stopped: 12:05.

Work began 1 30

v p. 72

Right page

date 3 2 November 1948 70

Small finds

L515 L 516 1. fr of lamps, from hole L 517 room O. type xxvIII Mi 468 2. small bone object new moon shaped. Room O third layer small fr. broken off toward but preserved in envelope

A 403 3. marble fr. with leaves carved in Room N top fr first layer A 404 A 4031 marble fr. similar above Room N first layer L 1222 5. lamp type xxvIII latest not early. Hypocaust at bottom of, fr. with handle

L 521 6 lamp type xxvIII fr. with handle not herring bone pattern L 523 Room O third layer. gross gross decoration

7 lamp type xxvIII fr. with handle careful decoration L 522 Room O third layer

both 6 and 7 SE corner of O L 524, L 525, L 526 … continues

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

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