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 58 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 58 of 86

121 date 30 April 1949

work began 0630

2.80 meters below stone to north * first layer in entrance to cellar to room O, ends. second layer begins no sign of floor. Top of second * layer gentle slope to East. Sherd bag [boxed: 12] [boxed: 33] entrance In west door of cellar of Room O, a number of roof tiles. One flat tile with traces of burning

P1418P 1418+ In west door entrance of cellar of Room O, third layer begins 10 cm below fifth step. fifth step from top not counting sfloor. This layer slopes down to east with greater inclination than second. † Sherd bag [boxed: 13] 10 stones in south end of cistern East of Room W 11. stone broken but perhaps in SITU in wall south of south pair of theater

work stopped 12:00 work began 13:00

Right page

122 date 30 April 1949

small finds

no. 1 [checkmark][circled: Alex.]Xριστο
coinon surface by entrance
C 2222mosaic
no. 2 [checkmark]Λoyns
C 2223probably in fill of
coin[circled: illeg.]door to cellar of Room
O

Margin left: red: Pl 104

no 3 piece of plaster in door of cellar of Room O, moulding

Margin left: red: Pl 34

no 4 piece of plaster reads as in door of cellar of Room O.

Margin left: red: St 838

no. 5 large marble jar fourth and fifth layer of cellar of Room O

Margin left: red: St 834<s> 839/

no. 6 large marble jar smaller than no 5 above in fourth layer of cellar of Room O.

Margin left: red: P2125

no. 7 large bottom of clay jar lowest layer in NW corner of cellar of Room O

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

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