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 57 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 57 of 102

111 date 31 May 1949

p.144beside the wall which goes NE from north side of south wall between the citadel and palace. It is more soil like. This fourth layer begins about level with top of north doors. 26 27 stereo pair of above. V. p. 113

work stopped 1200 work began 1355

p. 14428 29 stereo pair of plaster west of north part of theater south and of south entrance to parodos east of drain south of entrance. near wall of theater proper.

Clearing first layer west and north of north wing. Cleared second layer north end of south parodos Clearing first layer west of south parodos Clearing second layer south of south parodos. Clearing stones in west part of south dromos. Clearing 4th layer shown p. 105 south of south dromos.

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112 date 31 May 1949

Cleared third layer between theater and palace clearing fourth. Clearing first layer outside center dromos. Clearing pasta in center north drawing annex floor. Cleared center dromos south part of stones. The black layer goes on down. It begins 20 cm below preserved edge of dromos 4.5 meters beyond SW side of wall SW of main entrance from outside into dromos and continues down to front of wall where it is 1.7 meters below preserved top surface. Clearing black fill in entrance no. 2. This fill extends in from a little way in to wall across entrance to dromos in with a hump in middle

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

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