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 19 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 19 of 86

43 date 11 April 1949

which would be a projection of south side of wall dividing rooms Jota and theta. This layer did not proceed west east of a line at right angles to not to end of wall dividing Jota and theta.

Cleared second layer South west part of zeta The soil here differed from the soil in second layer of eta in color only and not along a line formed by a projection of south side of wall which divides rooms zeta and eta.

Cleaning second layer room Eta Cleared fourth layer South cistern. Cleared second layer west part of room epsilon and North west part of Zeta. This was the fill which contained the stones. A goodly number of roof tile fragments here, these of light coloured clay. Cleaning cistern to East of baths. Digging trench for dump of theater. Cleaning stones around theater.

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44 date 12 April 1949

P.13310P.13311P.13312work began 0655 fill room Zeta SW portion second layer removed. room Kappa modern fill removed. room Kappa first layer removed. work stopped 12:00 work began to 2 12:30

P.13313P.13314P.133 15/Room Kappa a hole in second layer against North wall and about 45cm from East one meter from west and extending one to meter south from North wall. About 15 cm deep with stones on bottom no plaster as on in rest of room hole room Kappa in second layer. stones and cement in cistern East of building. 16. 17 stones third layer SW corner of zeta.

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

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