Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 5·July 1949

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

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

Scan 16 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 5 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace/Theatre) VII July 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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p. 11121 July 1949 18 bath under mosaic from north west

p. 11119 bath under mosaic from southeast.

p. 11120 outside wall of bath under mosaic part, to south of drain from this bath.

In the bath under mosaic, there is on on the walls, from the inside out, first a layer of grayish plaster between one and one and a half cm thick, This substance is bed Back of this is a white plaster like material with bluish pebbles small pebbles. This bedded in a stone wall. On the outside of the grayish is here and there some white plaster. But this a deposit, a later accidental accretion The floor was made of the same grayish plaster and laid after the wall. On the north side the floor is more bevelled with

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21 July 1949 the wall.

p. 11121 drain of bath lead pipe facing 22

p. 11122 drain of bath lead pipe from side.

This lead lead pipe was cut away on top for about 5 cm on the west side, the lead was bent back against wall. On the east side it was cut away down almost to floor and the open space filled with cement. It is would seem because of the bevel on the north side and the splaying of the pipe westward that the water was expected to drain from NW. This

p. 11123 wall of bath bottom section on bed rock south of wall of drain

p. 12224 drain from apsidal bath coming north between drain from square bath and wall which extended over drain

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

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