Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 13·November–December 1938

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) II Nov.–Dec. 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 13 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) II Nov.–Dec. 1938), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 13, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 23 of 94

48 date 30 Nov. 1948

The black is much blacker toward NW.

P.1408 Photo Room M to NE to 8th layer by pipes

P. 191P. 1909. Room M 8th + 9th layer 10. Room M 8th 14th layer.

Room Y cleaned out plaster which was between two extension of bricks. In this layer in contradistinction to that above there were no building tiles The fe of building tiles in the room were nearly all in the soft layer above plaster and between two extensions of building. most which the layer which layer stopped beyond bricks probably just beyond bricks.

P. 191/11. Room X soft layer beside SE. wall removed. This crossed over to towards red fill on other side to near west wall just in front of trench for west wall but not sloping into it as along SE wall.

Right page

49 date 30. Nov, 1948

P. 191 - P. 192 (drawing)

12. to 22 photographs of mosaics cleaned.

Room k cleaned mosaics. There was over most of mosaics a hard layer of (calcium?) lime like substance which could only be removed by small to axe and by acid. Acid alone was not accomplished nothing. Chariote said that there was no such deposit on the other mosaics.

Room S cleaned out a little of fill at entrance of water tunnel. This was the same hard substance as that of in the channel in S3.

work stopped 15:50.

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

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