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 63 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 63 of 77

129 date 12 October 1949

[photograph] 15. 16 stereo pair of west room north of large room surface v soil removed.

[photograph] 16 v

17. v. p. 126.

Cleared fourth layer under mosaic west of SW_3 to bed rock. This must have been the floor for the walls on East and West sides. As it It comes just even with the lower bottom of the horizontal block just below the block which seems a door jamb in the west wall of SW_3

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130 date 12 October 1949

This fo The bottom of this This fourth layer lies on the bed rock and fill in the holes in the bed rock except in cistern which has a different fill probably placed there on purpose for the floor of the fourth layer.

Cleared third layer in East room, north of large. Soil goes from one side This layer is filling for floor above, and goes down to bed rock.

Clearing. In west room north of large cleared surface soil around stones in floor. The latest floor in this room was the stones on north side. One block of the west wall rested on top of these stone. The stones on north side rested on other stones layed on west and north side preserved in situ along west wall and just south of stones of floor above along north wall. [bracketed: [Sherd bag [49]]]

In Room AE clearing third layer In Room AC clearing second. Cleaning surface soil in drain north of entrance. Clearing surface soil SW of cistern east of building. ^v p. 128

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

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