Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 4·July 1949

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace/Theatre) VI July 1949De C. Fales

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

Scan 12 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 4 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace/Theatre) VI July 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 99

29 date 9 June 1949 p 148 No. 21 second layer west of north part of theater removed, showing edge of third, hard layer

Cleared 4th and fifth layers between theater and palace beyond entrance no. 3 under dromos. Cleared entrance no. 2 under south dromos. [Sherd bag 2] Clearing Cleared first layer in entrance no. 1 clearing second layer. above floor stones further back. In [Sherd bag 20] this second layer, pieces of clung. The top of this layer is about level with floor tier level outside. Cleared west part of south dromos to layer of ash which begins with stair. Clearing fill in west part of south dromos. Clearing first layer SW of south parodos. Clearing west first layer west of west part of south parodos. [Sherd bag 15] Clearing first layer west of orchestra. Clearing second and third layers west of north part of theater. Clearing first layer north of north part of theater.

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30 date 9 June 1949

Clearing Cleared sandy fill in entrance no. 4 Clearing lowest fill which is only rock on out side. This rock being part of rock fill in dromos. The soil beyond entrance from dromos is sandy chavara like.

N.B. In entrance no. 3 under center dromos, the earth and fill form two hills one by entrance from outside and the other where stone earth was removed from passage way

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

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