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 61 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.

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145 136 date

present supports. Could it have been that they tried at first to do without any supports and only later found that they were necessary. [symbol: paragraph mark?] Finally there is. the last were period of the first two layers. Because of the nature of this, it seems probable that this was part of the change from a bath to a building. This means that we have in this room an intermediate period during which they altered the original plan of the building. What the floor was like of the first period we do not know. And indeed the floor of the third second period in the N.W. and S.E. corners presents problems, which are for in neither corner was had the floor a hard strong service. The fourth layer where it exists was probably and the bed rock the holes in the bed rock were filled. In any case the floor must have this and near the bed rock.

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137 146 date.

The purpose of this room in its three periods remains obscure. Certainly. In the second period, they wanted a large room, & why? In the first period, there seem to have been two small rooms opening out of large or. This room is not in the central part of the bath and is not a part of the servants' quarters. It is near the latrine but certainly had no direct connection with the latrine and as its door was in the corner nearest the entrance from the bath, its connection lie rather with the bath than with the corridors of the bath rather than with the latrine.

It is to be noted that the third layer just covers the top of the stones which forms something of a foundation in the north wall. On the south side the fourth is contiguous with the change.

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

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