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 59 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 59 of 94

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date 28 March 1949

Under room B in cellar removed fill between wall down to bed rock few sherds, some tiles, and fragments of pipes. Outsi Hole 20 West and lower than Room B, cleared fill between bed rock and wall, fill earth and stones with no sherds. In ovalar cutting in rock, removing fill.

North and west of South cistern, removed second layer, revealing wall trench on west side. This trench cleared going down to bed rock. Clearing third layer. Undermined NW stone of cistern.

East of Room W clearing cleared North section down to bed rock. Further South clearing layer above lowest.

in cellar under Room W clearing floor.

Cleared first layer Rooms Beta & Gamma, delta, dex

cleaning first layer Room Epsilon.

cleaning modern fill west Rooms Beta + Gamma

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date 29 March 1949

work began 0655

Margin left: 11 21

N. P. 1691. photograph S + W side: W + N side of south cistern. Third layer is removed

P. 1692.photograph same as 1 but looking North.

Fill on stone floor room gamma. tumble of stones and blocks of cement with white plaster rough on one side and smooth surface on other. Smooth surface lies with face down upon stones facing flag stone floor on The white contains the small blue pebbles. In general these pieces of plaster lie about .5 m from east wall of room. On the stones these south stones has a layer of plo plaster 1 to 2 cm thick

P. 1693.Modern fill west of Room B.

P. 1694is about one meter below under stone which bridges dromos between Rooms B + O the

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

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