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 32 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 32 of 86

69 date 15 April 1949.

In trench where is to be dump of theater. Bed rock flatened surface by hand of man and then a corner in bed rock. Vertical part approx. 80 cm high on top of this wall lower 30 cm of this with plaster. Whole wall extends above bed rock 2.5 meters. Fill above bed rock to north of wall remains the same right to top layer and consists of stones and rocks a fact with brown soil which have fallen from above in helter shelter order.

[margin left: roll 27 P. 142 1] trench west of theater down to bed rock P. 142 2 wall pof trench west of theater down to bed rock.

Cellar of room O. fifth directly under hole in roof begins 1.50 - 20 below east edge of hole. It slopes down toward south being a little higher on north edge than directly under hole. On its north side it is 40-50 cm away from north wall and about 40 - 50 cm high.

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70 date 15 April 1949

On its west side, it finishes about where wall north wall ends. On its south side, it is 1.50 meters away from south wall. On its east side it is .8 m away from east wall Except for north side it is very which is approximately straight, it is roughly circular. The fourth layer completely surrounded this fifth layer on top and on the sides. The fourth layer which rested on sixth layer where it did not rest on fifth and must have been poured in first, probably from hole above. after fifth. The fifth layer is fine red sand and cuts clearly from fourth. The sixth is rather similar to fourth with perhaps more mud and the distinction is not so clear. The fill of fourth resembles that of cellar under flagstones.

work stopped 12 11:50 (a.m). work began 12 25

Decinel layer in cellar Room M begins 1.9 meters below rock in NE corner

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

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