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 17 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 17 of 73

55 21 July 1949

p. 11225 showing wall of drain from bath built against wall of bath

p 11226 drain from mosaic bath west side from north end

p 11227. same as 26 but from west.

The lead pipe from bath under mosaic go further, side is to be thrown cut so on bottom, and the bottom as a tonge bent down. The sides extend in about 18 cm and seem to abut against drain pipe on east side, on west side the lead does not reach the terracotta pipe. The lead pipe is 4.5 cm in diameter. The inside surface is corrugated irregularily corrugated. Below the bent down tongue, there is a small moon line depression. The terra cotta pipe has an inside diameter of 14 cm and an outside diameter of 15.5 cm. It is about 34 cm long (361).

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21 July 1949The drain is about itself is in the wall of the bath is about 16.5 cm wide, and on the west side the plaster begins to to stop in the upper portions where the pipe begins. The drain on the outside is about 40 cm high The pipe on the outside is about 6 cm above the bottom of the drain. The plaster on the east side begins to stop on top where pipe begins. The inside of the terra cotta pipe is. corrugated. This corrugation begins about 8 cm from end. There is a lip of about 2 cm width on edge. This lip is only a slight rise

In the drain from bath under mosaic, on the east side there are two layers which resemble very much the two layers of the bath, in except that outside layer is thinner, one half centimeter to one centimeter thick, and the white plaster is thicker. This white plaster

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

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