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 21 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 21 of 73

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22 July 1949used in connection with bath.

South of north wall of mosaic room for 20 cm and [illegible] cm east from west wall, long wall, outer which extends north, making west boundary of entrance to tepidarium a with different soil with stones. This about 5 cm under level of door sill.

Margin left: p. 133

13. photograph of above.

Margin left: p. 133

14. Mud layer above exposed.

Area of second layer mentioned this page above removed. This part goes under entrance to stones to west.

The third layer south of bath under mosaic and east of tepidarium, is humped in middle sloping down to north and south. In the south the hollow was filled in with a [illegible] loose soil making a level for cement above. This sloping begins about 70 80 cm from

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22 July 1949from junction of east wall and circular and extends eastward at an angle of roughly 90°. It slopes down toward SW corner being 30 cm below level of bath on each and 40 cm on west of course 10 cm below wall just south of circular bath. On north side it begins to slope about 90 cm south of north wall on west side, and continues probably to NE corner but as the cement has been left as a sign here in corner that it did slope right to corner cannot be verified. In front of two blocks of door i.e. 90 cm south of north wall, it is 15 to cm below top of door stones.

Margin left: p. 133

v. p. 43 15. Showing east stones of door door above third layer north of bath under mosaic

Margin left: p. 134

16* 19. Wall closing entrance to cistern under mosaic.

Margin left: p. 134

20. bed rock between drain and mouth of cistern

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

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