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 36 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 36 of 94

74 date

In Mosaic Room, there are traces of at least two building periods one with pagan mosaics to west floor one with walls under mosaics two with pagan mosaic three with Christian mosaic.

It would seem then too that was here originally a large building that this was converted into a bath and that with the advent of Christianity the bathing establishment was reduced and rather the colonnade part emphasized.

The wall across south mosaic does not. fit in with this scheme for if the crosses there have Christian connotation and they are probably contemporary with big mosaic and one would suppose that the stuttur covering over one half of the mosaic would be in accord with the general curtailment of last period.

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75 date

Note. Room P. The drain under P must have been constructed before first floor was laid. like P. H and F later addition to NKL.

Room E fill, fill is for the almost completely large coarse ware. There seem to be no building tiles but roof tiles pipes and marble. A number of Three fragments were used in wall which held water. These vases must have fragmentary when thrown. There are very few sherds of fine ware. The absence of ordinary building tile is to be noted. Why are then no building tiles. The fill looks like jars that were used to carry water and to heat it, and the tiles roof tiles marble fragments, pipes, make one think that these come from that fill came from some reconstruction of southern part of building where there were not many building tiles.

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

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