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 36 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 36 of 99

77 date 21 June 1949

Ontop of the yialooufa is a thin str fill with black soil

In yialooufa pan of seventh layer north of brown, there were a number of covering tiles and roof tiles fragments of

In second trench outside of center dromos about 2 m. east of outside of wall there is the summit of a hump which slopes down on either side. In the hollow between this summit and the hard fill which slopes down from outside of wall, a fill with soft soil and many sherds.

In center dromos, the yialooufa is not quite as described p. 75, but is rather in sloping part of fill 5-10 cm thick.

P. p. 158 photograph of above.

In second trench outside center dromos in fifth layer, a fine layer of black

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78 date 21 June 1949

P no. 9 p. 154 , the showing trench slopes where was yialooufa with sides sloping down on either side toward middle.

Note eighth layer considered to be layer of soil on top yialooufa and loose rock which stretches to across dromos beyond south side of entrance no 3 from dromos to colonnade.

In second trench outside center dromos cleared fifth layer which lies in hollow between sixth and hard layer against wall. Sixth layer lies on top of hard layer against theater wall shred bag (39)

In center dromos south of entrance no. 3 from dromos to colonnade seventh layer begins about 2 meters below preserved height of wall on east side and 1.8 below height of preserved wall on west side. This layer lies directly above floor

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

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