Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 2·April 1949

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) IV April 1949De C. Fales

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 12 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 2 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) IV April 1949), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 29Scan 12 of 86

Continued from scan 11

… date 7 April 1948

P.130P.13028. Fill west of Room eta by place where bed rock fell off snappily. 29. The same from North.

Cleared third layer in cellar of Co. Clearing fourth along north clearing wall

Clearing third layer south cistern.

Opened up passage to north chamber of cistern east of Room W.

Built column to support bed rock by middle entrance of cistern.

Clearing surface soil west of building, by rooms Zeta and eta and west of south mosaic room.

Cleared row of stones shown p. 25

Right page

date 8 April 1949

work began 0655

The fill shown in photographs 28 + 29 extends west about two meters on north side a little more on south. On south it begins on a line west from at right angles from mosaic with inscription on its south side. Its width is about three meters following along bed rock approximately and approximately in a north south direction.

P.130P.130P.131P.131P.13130 South east side of theatre center 31 south side of theatre east. 32 modern patche between rooms Zeta and eta cleared 33. first layer removed from theta and iota. 34. room iota first layer removed. 35 room theta first layer removed.

Cleared first layer of room Iota This layer began at south end of building and extended north to north wall of Iota As it came higher [illegible] toward the north north of Room Iota [illegible] it changed slightly in color and filled the SW section

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

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