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 56 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 56 of 94

102 Date 26 March 1949 (drawing)

Trench East of building. Stopped at bottom [strike-through] line [/strike-through] of third layer. Third layer 15-20 cm deep. Fourth in trench layer in trench divided into three parts. Middle between two walls about 1.3 m meters apart filled with chavara. North section fill contains some chavara as does South. South Cistern, East and North [strike-through] South [/strike-through] of removed second layer [strike-through] In two [/strike-through] [[boxed: Shard box 26]] Room B [strike-through] on to under hole in [/strike-through] North part cleared modern fill. In [strike-through] Room under Room B [/strike-through] cleared fill of stones and dirt west of upper NS wall. Cleaning fill west of lower NS wall. In cellar under Room W clearing layer of fill from ceiling. [strike-through] In heap [/strike-through] In heap of stones just [strike-through] South of [/strike-through] South wall of cellar under flag stones, pieces of plaster with paint. Cleaning cistern, East of Room W. About 1.3 m under projection on North side, soil changes and becomes similar to that in cellar under flag stones. This layer 20-30 cm thick and directly on bedrock.

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103 Date (drawing) 28 March 1949

Work began 0655 P. 167 20 NW & W of South cistern. first fill removed.

P. 167 21. Stone directly West of middle cistern. In situ.

P. 167 22. Shrines in SE corner of Beta.

P. 167 23. NW & West of South cistern second layer removed. This, a lighter layer

In Room B in extension of cistern in room (drawing) a layer of earth [strike-through] bottom under [/strike-through] hollow underneath and about 60-70 cm below east side of rock.

Under Room B cleared between walls to bed rock, fill much the same few sherds & no tiles east of building and pipes.

Work stopped 12:00 Work began 12:30

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

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