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 49 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 49 of 102

95 date 27 May 1949

In the french north of theater. a wall found as shown on preceding page. On soth south side at the side the edge slants blocks on the edge slant in a SW direction. The floor is composed of stone possibly bed rock. The fill is composed of loose stones and fragments of wall down to floor. Top of wall 1.5 meters below level of earth.

Clearing first layer west of Theater. Clearing stones in second layer of dromos, center south section. These stones lie on top of black burnt layer, which goes down in SW directio Cleared trench north of theater to floor level.

Cleared red soil in entrance no. 3

The Cleared second some of second layer north of wall across center dromos just wall just south of entrance no. 3.

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96 date 27 May 1949

This layer seems to join with the third layer under red sand soil of entran second layer of entrance no. 3

North of preserved wall just north of entrance no. 3 behind manner east of manner B (plan in office) a fill of loose stones. To the north this fill ends in a layer of hard plaster which runs across dromos from east. This fill of loose stones lies on top of the plaster line, and both are under the layer of burnt black material.

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

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