Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 1·March 1948–April 1949

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) III Mar. 1948–April 1949De C. Fales

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 24 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 1 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) III Mar. 1948–April 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 1, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 24 of 94

48 date 10 March 1949

South of rooms U and X and East of drain, cleared fourth layer out 10 cm deep. Fifth layer, top of about 15 cm below top of drain.

Room E cleared to first layer and second layer. Ran into virgin soil above bed rock hollow in bed rock some of this removed. Part of second layer hard particularly In middle of east half of layer. The The above applies to section east of middle wall. West of middle wall cleared first layer and in northern part cleared second layer. A hole in this layer in southern part going down to bedrock.

East of Room with flag stones cleared fifth layer.

East of Room W cleared fourth layer revealing hole going below cleaning fifth layer.

Cleared Room W second layer

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49 date 10 March 1949

Lifted flag stones over hole. cleaning stones below, many cut stones, a few architectural members.

Lifted top off cistern … continues

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

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