Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 6·September–October 1949

D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) VIII Sep.–Oct. 1949De C. Fales

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

Scan 48 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 6 (D. Fales, Kourion Complex (Palace) VIII Sep.–Oct. 1949), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 7, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 48 of 77

99 date 6 October 1949

Photograph; label: W, E

20. top of second layer under entrance mosaic showing connection continuation of level with soil outside.

In fourth layer west of seeming cutting for stair, there is a different soil 25 to 30 cm from wall, this 25 to 30 cm wide and 18 to 20 cm deep. It is cut in bed-rock and it a continuation of cutting in layer above which was by mistake missed.

Photograph

21. of above.

22.23 (probably) see top of third layer north of mosaic north of garden. v. p. 155

Right page

100 date 6 October 1949

Cleaning surface soil around water trench from cistern east of building. Cleared third layer south of cistern east of Room W. Revealing blocked drain at on east side. Cleared layer above bed rock in SW corner of cistern East of Room W. Cleared soil north of north cistern, nearing drain under mosaic to from east. [shards 45] Cleared first layer entrance mosaic. Cleaning second, i.e. trench in north part. Cleared third fourth, cleaning fifth layer west of entrance mosaic. stair. Cleaning trench NS across Room AA* Room in SE corner of servants' wing. Widening trench across mosaic north of garden. Second layer is not as previously dug. About 18 cm below soil under stones top of mosaic, there is a thin layer of small blue pebbles in some places thicker than in others. There is another layer of soil about 12 cm. thick which above top third layer and above supporting wall north of north wall of garden. Cleared third layer in east portion of Peter Room K.

* shardbag 48

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

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