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 5 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.

Page 16Scan 5 of 99

15 date 6 June 1949.

cleared entrance of no. 2 entrune under south dromos To Cleaning rear part and drom back of no. 2 entrance, pots and stones and some soil Cleaning soil west end of dromos south dromos clearing second layer between walls 2 and 3.

Cleaning first layer west of south parodos.

Cleaning first layer west of orchestra.

Cleaning first layer north of north part of theater.

Cleared south part of center H. dromos to wall with large blocks on top. The fill remained much the same bear cleaning fill on bottom between upright supports cleaning fill beyond the wall with large blocks here fills consists of loose stones and earth with many fragments of mosaic It was even with top of broad stones

toncleaning stones across dromos north center where outside of inside wall V. p. 14

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date 7 June 1949

work began 0630

In the dromos, center norther n part of the layer under the plaster begins about 1.1 meter under first well meserwed stone by of door on inside.

work stopped 11:55 work began 12:55

18. [insertion begins] just [insertion ends] north of entrance no. 3 under dromos third layer removed and stone no 935 fourth lever band extending out from wall to no 1.25 meters. Hard with stones.

19. three stones on second layer of entrance number four. mud top stone placed there by us.

cleaning entrance no. 2 under south dromos: soil remains the same

cleaning west end of south dromos level with floor just west east of window in cistern

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

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