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 23 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 23 of 99

51 date 14 June 1949

Drawing: grid coordinates 1-9 horizontally, 1-15 vertically; plan showing chamber and doorway; labels: stones in | window which | opens out into | cistern, stones | on inside | dromos side | and about 20 | cm thick | The lump here | is were stone | was worn away | when stones | were placed in | window | 800 | layer of ash and | burnt matter ends | about here

Unentrance no. 1 undersouth dromos, 1.4 meter belowbottom of second stone fromtop of hole in entrance, soil changesbeginning sixth.
Clearing entrance no. 3 under southdromos stones T65 X 14 CS P64 SE 5.Cleared fifth layer in entranceno. 1 under south dromos.V. p. 52

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52 date 14 June 1949

33 cm deep.

vol VII, p 100 15 two upright stones of hearthin south part part of center dromosfrom north.
vol VII p. 101 16 the same from south.
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18. stones in third layer west ofnorth part of theater.
19 stones 987-8-9 90 91 92stones in sin
vol VII p. 101 20 the same from further west withstones 991-92

work stopped 12:00 work began 12:55

Clearing layer of ash andburnt matter between westernmost kiln and first step ofwestern most stair in southdromos.
Clearing first layer in southpart of stage building.
Clearing first layer west of centerof stage building.
Clearing fourth layer in centerdromos

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

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