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 66 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 132Scan 66 of 94

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date 31 March 1949.

Cleared fourth layer in dromos between rooms O+B, clearing fifth. Clearing surface fill in south cistern Clearing fill in cistern east of Room W Clearing cistern under Room W Clearing first layer room eta zeta Clearing modern fill west of rooms delta & epsilon. Clearing the surface stones and brush in theater.

Work stopped 01030 approx. rain.

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date 1 April 1949

work began 0655

P.17115 modern fill as in room zeta

Sixth layer in dromos between O+B stones chavara lime. It extends about north from corner made of stones about .8 meter and east about .6 meter. It rises in middle of dromos where it is about 20 cm below cutting in bedrock on east side. It would seem that sea-washed stones to north extend southward under this layer.

P.171P.171P.171P.17116. Theater to brush out and 17. scrub growth removed 18. " " " 19. ' ' '

P.17120. Sea washed stones in dromos between O+B, sixth layer cleared

P.17221. 22. 23. 24. 25 end of sea washed stones in south part of dromos. Sixth layer cleared, seventh starting.

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

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