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 54 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 54 of 94

108 date 26 March 1949

work began 0655

P.166 15. area west of Palace as found. P.166 16 area west of palace as found

In cistern east of Room W about 1.3 meters under north at lower edge of bedrock, soil changes, similar to that & becomes similar to that in cellar under flagstones. work stopped 12:00 work began 12:30.

P.166 17. East & north of south cistern second layer removed. Stone 337. to which second layer was level with, about layer about 15 cm deep. by stone becoming shallower at North and South ends.

Drawing: vertical line crossing a horizontal baseline, labeled "Alpha"

P.167 18. fill in hole on north side of Room B. north side of fill. P.167 19. the same from above.

Right page

109 date 26 March 1949

Small finds

T3025 No 1. a no. of pieces of terracottas from edge of pit cistern south West of building.

St 638 No. 2 p. of marble basin at about level of change of soil.

No. 3 (drawing) Arcadius Coin C 2120 first layer on west side of building

no. 4 C 2121 coin.

Drawing: circle] Aretas

4V 9 B.C. 40 A.D. Χριστοφορος layer of sand west of building.

M4589 No. 5 iron iron (drawing) shaped thing in fill in cellar under flagstones.

St 639 no. 6 piece of marble, surface on west side of building. side of basin

St. 640.1 No 7. (drawing) pieces of marble (drawing) with lines on back, on surface west side of building V. p. 111

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

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