Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 3·May–June 1949

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace/Theatre) V May–June 1949De C. Fales

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

Scan 47 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 3 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace/Theatre) V May–June 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 47 of 102

91 date 27 May 1949

work began 0625

work stopped 12:00 work began 13:00

p.142no 8 full of stones first layer center dromos.

p.141p.141p.1429. wall in trench to north of 10. theater. 11.

Cleaning third layer between bath Palace and theater. This fill of many stones and sherds. Clearing stones shown on p. 93 Cleaning area beside south wall of south dromos. By holes under dromos there was a loose fill of stones and earth hardened by water into hollows. This soil was dug out to wall number four. In so doing we went through a number of layers. Cleaning second layer west of south part of theater. Cleaning first layer west of west wall of theater

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92 date 27 May 1949

Small finds

no. 1✓(drawing)Λουης. / First layer / of dromos / north center / part.C2266
Coin / Byzantine
no. 2✓(Valentinian / I or ValensNeapxos / on floor of trench / to north of theaterC2267
Coin

M529no. 3 piece of metal first layer west of north part of theater.

M528no. 4 nails in trench to north of theater near floor.

L389no. 5 lamp type XXXX XXV in pit south of south dromos and west of wall no 4 below bottom of wall no. 4

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

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