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 65 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 65 of 77

133 date 13 October 1949.

[photograph] 19. Wall north side under Room AC, east end.

[photograph] 20. walls east end of on south side of trench Room A E.

In room A D, the first layer about 10 cm deep. The top of second layer is hard probably floor. The second layer rests on bed rock.

In trench under mosaic west of SW3, the fourth layer stretches to west but about 90 cm east west of west wall a cutting begins which is about 15 cm deep when it arrives at wall. There is considerable

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134 date 13 October 1949

plaster both on the wall and in the section of soil which placed in the hollow of the fourth layer. In the second layer there is considerable change of soil about 90 cm west of west wall, rocks and such but it is not a sharply cut trench and seems to be filling thrown against wall. The wall above top of second layer has a change in construction. Two building periods are thus evident one with the east and west walls and the fourth layer and one with the mosaic above. The first, second and third layers being fill for the mosaic

21. broken pipe under north wall of west mosaic around garden

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

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