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 34 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 34 of 94

68 date 16 March 1949

P. 160 no. 5 North of bath, east of hypocaust first layer cut out

P. 160 no. 6 SE of Room W second layer removed stones 2.92.3.4.5.6.7.

293 294 295 296 292 plan elevation stones above. 292 almost level with 293.

no. 7 photograph of stones SE Room W in elevation.

East of North Room T cleared soil from outer wall.

North of East Room IV cleared rocks four Soil changes 20-30 cm above layer below by absence of rocks.

Directly North apsidal extension of Room IV and east of north aptension of Room IV soil different from East north of apsidal extension Room IV. The stones a This wall North of apsidal extension ends on a line from N E corner

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69 date 16 March 1949

to beginning end of wall going SE NW from NE corner north extension Room IV. The soil beyond this point slopes towards the hypocaust

Cleared soil directly on top of bed rock east of hypocaust This layer laid before wall to the East. It extends down to bedrock in drain lime hole north of triangle NE room L. Removing first layer which extends along north side of Room L beyond the beginning of soil on bed rock.

Southeast of Room W removed first layer, revealing EW wall. On clearing what seems soil of second layer come upon a rough stone floor which looks as if it were placed there when the cistern was filled up.

South of building cleared all of third layer, west of South extension cleared down to bed rock

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

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