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 3 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 3 of 86

11 date 4 April 1949

work began 0655

Second layer in SE cistern about 30 cm deep.

Second layer in cellar under Room O begins about 1 meter under roof of red rock at opening.

work stopped 12:00 work began 12:30

Margin left: beginningwith 22

1. [margin left: P.127 1. P.127 2. P.127 3. P.127 4.] in cleaning first layer in cellar under photographs of fill in south end of cistern just east of room W.

top layer removed room Zeta and eta.

cleaning first layer in cellar under Room W. Soil in this first layer as in second slopes down from square hole in roof toward sides of room below.

Cleared lowest layer in cistern to East of Room W to point where middle entrance to cistern under Room W begins. [shed bag [38]] . V P. 14

Right page

date 4 April 1949 . 12

Small finds disintegrated.

no. 1 coin or piece of metal | (drawing) | in cellar under Room O. second layer

[red ink: M464] no. 2 metal ring broken

3/4 preserved.in cellar under Room O
second layer.

no. 3 coin [red ink: C 2147] | Honorius | (drawing) | [Greek: Λουης] in cellar under Room O second layer.

no. 4 coin [red ink: C 2148] | illeg. | (drawing) | [Greek: Λουης] in cellar under Room O second layer.

no. 5 coin [red ink: C 2149] | (drawing) | [Greek: Λουης] in cellar under Room O second layer,

[red ink: written sideways: L714-5] no. 6 piece of lamp type XXVII. VIII second layer south cistern + several more parts same place of find

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

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