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 6 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 6 of 94

12 date 2 March 1949

P.19617. East East of hypocaust + Room N showing entrance to hypocaust.

P.14618. East of hypocaust & Room N showing stone lying against wall.

[? SherdbagRoom T dug out cleared surface fill on east side [bracket: 27]] along North wall dug into Removed stones and fill on top of east end of North wall.

Room N cleared apsidal eastern extension a brown layer and then a black with tiles. In black layer much clay like substance. Clearthred Clearing rest of Room N of black layer, down to what is presumably the floor. Just off center to west a squarish hole filled with black ash has come to light.

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13 date 2 March 1949

East of Room N. removed surface fill of winter. Then a layer of stones and sandy soil approximately .65 m deep. This layer ends against a layer of pebbles in a dry clayey soil.

East of hypocaust. When at layer of dry clay and pebbles reached in east area east of Room N turned towards area east of hypocaust. Here between bed rock and outside of wall of hypocaust, the fill fill of stones and sand just continued. However, as towards south, an upper lighter layer, about .15 cm. deep appeared. Began to clear this.

Room X, cleared winter fill. Then in west end cleared first layer thin as shown in diagram, p. 11. This layer became deeper at turn of towards turn of outside wall. It was .80 cm. below wall at turn, .5 m at junction.

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

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