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 78 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 78 of 99

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Vol VII p. 104date 16 July 1949

p 1058.9.10 second third layer warn section of Room B

East of drain from ges bath with mosaic cleared second layer which lay directly above bedrock.

Between two drains clearing second layer, the top of this about 10 to 2 cm thick was hard and a different soil but it was so slight that it I have considered it all part of the second layer.

South cistern repaired stone in NW corner not original. In addition several other stones have been replaced below particularly on south side.

In east part of Room B the second layer which began under the earth under the foundations of the mosaic practically the same until bed rock is reached It is loose with stones and many fragments of mosaic However on most half 50 cm south of north wall and 50 cm

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date 13 July 1949

west of west wall, soil becomes hardened. This, top of this hardening occurs on north side about level with top of stones. On west side it is lower. There is also a third layer with plaster on the north side, extending south 120 120 cm.

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

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