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 60 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.

Page 421Scan 60 of 94

120 date 29 March 1949

Small finds

, in red: M 631no. 1 piece of metal with two pieces of tesserae of mosaic attached in sand passage lower passage between Rooms B and O. W of a first fill now being excavated.

, in red: St 646no. 2 part of small stone basin N+W of south cistern. in third layer

, in red: L 766no 3 piece of lamp type XXIII in [illegible] upper fill of not [illegible] lower. of cistern east of W

, in red: L 392no 4 lamp type XXIII in [illegible] cistern east of Room W in fill of above lowest.

, in red: M 567no 5 nail in second layer in dromos between O+B. in northern part of second layer.

, in red: L 762 - L 765no. 6 fr. of lamps type XXIII/IVII in fill in cellar under flagstones

, in red: M 435no 7 fr. of metal in fill in cellar under flagstones.

Right page

date 29 March 1949

the soil changes.

P1194. top fill south of entrance mosaic P1705. now removed. soil below.

P1706 [illegible] fill west of Room B. P1707, same as 6,

work stopped 12:00 [illegible] began 12:30

Margin left: K P173

In dromos between B+O in layer which stops one meter below bed rock, 20 cm below its surface a hollow cuts about 40 cm. It begins at least 40 cm from south corner of adjacent wall. It probably extended further south, as line of roers on east side continues further south. In layer above this a number of roof tiles and building tiles in small fragments.

second layer 15 cm deep and changes at turn of east wall westward NE. It ends in a thin fairly straight line

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

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